[End Times Sentinel]

Federal officials declined to say how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) found out about the illegal immigrants

Perhaps they checked the Yellow Pages under "Cleaning"

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If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

[CottonBall]

Relying on existing law, ICE has engaged in high-profile raids of worksites employing undocumented workers.

ICE also has proposed a plan to take action against employers based on their failure to respond to letters notifying them that their employees' Social Security numbers don't match information in government data bases.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has asked Congress for greater leeway in accessing and using evidence against employers. Under current law, ICE does not have access to information possessed by the Social Security Administration. Chertoff wants to allow data sharing so immigration agents can use nonmatching Social Security information as a lead to find illegals -- not just as evidence once illegals are found.

Unlike in the past, ICE isn't just seeking to assess civil monetary fines against companies found to have employed illegal aliens. It's also seeking criminal sanctions against executives for failing to follow a 1986 federal law making it illegal to hire undocumented workers.

This sounds to good to be true. These laws were in effect all along - why just pay attention to them now? The GOP obviously knows what we (the base) want. Failing to provide it other than at election time is yet another slap in the face. And I'm not turning the other cheek as far as the GOP goes any more.