What about Pelosi's illegal alien employees? (Flashback/title altered)

American Thinker ^ | 11/02/2006 | Thomas Lifson

[Qbert]

Remember Linda Chavez? She had to withdraw from consideration for a cabinet post because one of her employees was an illegal alien. So how about Nancy Pelosi, who would be third in line for succession if she becomes Majority Leader?

Investors Business Daily brings us the following information about her family—owned vineyard.

As Peter Schweizer notes in his best—selling expose of liberal hypocrisy, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)," part of the fortune of this defender of the working man is a Napa Valley vineyard worth $25 million that she owns with her husband. The vineyard produces expensive grapes for high—end wines. Napa grapes bring up to $4,000 a ton compared with $300 a ton for, say, San Joaquin grapes. But Pelosi, winner of the 2003 Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers, hires only nonunion workers and sells these grapes to nonunion wineries. [....]

Which makes Pelosi's steadfast opposition to any attempts to enhance border security and stem the flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. all the more interesting since she seems to be among those rich employers who financially benefit from a steady supply of cheap foreign labor. [....]

Nor has Pelosi been a fan of employer sanctions against the hiring of illegal aliens. In 2003, she accused immigration officers of conducting "terrorizing raids" on Wal—Mart stores that led to the arrest of more than 300 illegal aliens.

Loraine Stewart, a farmworker advocate with Napa Valley Community Housing, in a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle article estimated that half of the migrant labor force in the valley consisted of undocumented workers, without whom "not one bottle of wine would get made here." Read the whole thing to get a picture of the actual practices of this wealthy hypocritical liberal. Aside from IBD, none of the major press seems the least bit interested in this scandal.

(Original title: "Pelosi's illegal alien employees")

[I see my hands]

Debating facts with a statist is like bringing an Eskimo kiss to a nuclear war.

[ComputerGuy]

If it weren’t for double standards, they’d have no standards at all.

[Personal Responsibility]

Other than “to score cheap political points” I don’t get why the statist leftists care if Meg Whitman has an illegal working for her. I was under the impression they thought no one was illegal?

Are they screaming because Whitman fired the woman when she found out about her status? That reaction would actually be consistent with their position.

[Qbert]

“Other than “to score cheap political points” I don’t get why the statist leftists care if Meg Whitman has an illegal working for her. I was under the impression they thought no one was illegal?

Are they screaming because Whitman fired the woman when she found out about her status? That reaction would actually be consistent with their position.”

—Well, it’s partly to alienate the Hispanic-vote against her. The ‘evil, rich white Republican firing the poor, sobbing Hipanic woman.’

It’s also to try to portray her as being a hypocrite: ‘the anti-illegal immigrant Republican who hires illegals’. I don’t even know what Whitman’s actual stance is on illegal immigration- I was under the impression that she was somewhere in the middle (not open borders, but not in full support of the Arizona law), so this line of attack seems pretty hollow...