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"the treatment that the illegal immigrant cleaners received at the hands of Wal-Mart"

The only thing I remember is that the INS swept through and nabbed a bunch of them. I don't recall hearing anything else.

By the way, Wal-Mart contracts for cleaning services. So I'm not sure what 'treatment' you might be refering to.

To do this quick and be fair to Wal-Mart in that INS raid that we are speaking of, the employees in question were subcontracted. The truth is that Wal-Mart was not the only guilty retailer. K-Mart to a much lesser degree was also as bad as Wal-Mart. Target on the other hand has had policies in place from what appears to be the beginning of time to prohibit this type of activity and I respect that. In addition, the INS also raided Wal-Marts Corporate headquarters and from what I read in the press their executives knew damn well what was going on. Also by not paying these illegals at least minimum wage they were living in squalid conditions and ripping off the community, I believe it was a jewelery store heist that went bad, unraveled the whole case for the INS. It is for this reason I do not shop at Wal-Mart as much as I used to.