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1 posted on 09/06/2004 2:38:21 PM PDT by MegaSilver
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Some immigrant workers have sued the Arkansas-based company, claiming they were paid illegally low wages.

Notice the "immigrant workers" aren't identified as illegal, only the American dollars they were paid was illegal. Media bias.

Interesting Walmart gets blamed but not the cleaning company and not the illegals. People, this was contracted out. How many of us have a house built and hire a contractor who in turn contracts out the framing, the plumbing, the electrical, etc.? Unless we were there at the time the illegal dude was, we wouldn't know about him. Big business isn't going to be on the spot like a homeowner would so it could go on a while until it was brought to their attention but all they'd do is send a memo to the cleaning company and wait for their response. I'm not excusing Walmart, but where's the charges against the cleaning company? The only reason Walmart is getting catching it all is because the media wants to bring Walmart down, not because hiring illegals is wrong and drains the economy. How about blaming the INS for knowingly allowing the illegals to remain and taking jobs away from citizens? Why weren't they rounded up and had a ride back to where they belong? Why isn't it being reported if the IRS is investigating the cleaning company? Since apparently there were a number working together then where's the arrest record of the coyotes who brought them and set them up with the cleaning company? Why isn't the media pressing Vincente about the mass exodus from his glorious country and the kick backs he's getting? There's more out there to blame, but a usual, the courts and the media have failed.

2 posted on 09/06/2004 2:57:17 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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Federal agents arrested about 250 alleged illegal workers last October during a sweep of Wal-Mart stores in 21 states.

That's all they could find?

Some immigrant workers have sued the Arkansas-based company, claiming they were paid illegally low wages.

Are the suing Mexican immigrants legal immigrants? If so, they're suing for something illegal? This is so confusing....

3 posted on 09/06/2004 3:01:16 PM PDT by xJones
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Other recent border issue stories:

Along the (North) border, a new eye on security

Flow of migrants puts border's agents on alert

Latino Activist: "Immigration study tells slanted story" [BARF ALERT]

Parties targeting 12 million immigrant citizens of voting age

Law aids (illegal) immigrants who are victims of abuse

Houston Thinks Small to Tackle Big Dropout Problem

Racial Profiling Redux

4 posted on 09/06/2004 3:50:17 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: MegaSilver

The folks that used to clean the Wal Mart near my house were definitely foreigners, they weren't Mexicans though. They were Eastern Europeans of some sort.


5 posted on 09/06/2004 6:20:36 PM PDT by csvset
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