[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So here you have OSHA and ICE at odds with each other. It just proves my thought that the federal government cannot find it's own behind with both hands and a flashlight.

[2banana]

Deport him

AND

Put senior management in jail.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The federal government is spending nearly $1 trillion more than it takes in each year, and yet, they’re too daft to defer somebody’s deportation until he’s done testifying in a court case in which he’s a material witness???

Combined PING! and DANG!

[BradyLS]

It’s funny who gets the fast-track boot...and no boot at all.

[Moonman62]

“We must not deter victims and witnesses of construction catastrophes from coming forward,” the New Orleans City Council president, Helena Moreno, and vice president, Jason Williams, said in a statement this week.

...

Don’t the taxpayers pay a fortune for inspectors?

[STYRO]

Could be that construction management paid OSHA inspectors enough that they influenced the kind people at ICE to remove a potential problem. Just sayin’....winky face icon goes here.

[Chode]

he can Skype his testimony, doesn't need to be here to do that

[Lurkinanloomin]

Arrest the employers for employing illegal aliens.

[SanchoP]

What’s really sad is the idiots that buy into this story concocted by his lawyer. THINK PEOPLE!

[Zhang Fei]

They can get his testimony from Honduras. I recall a Department of Labor case from decades ago where an employer short-changed his employees. Depositions were taken in the employees’ home country, restitution was made, and checks were sent to the employees who were short-changed.

[elpadre]

“...Mr. Ramirez Palma, an immigrant from Honduras...”

wrong!!! Palme was not an immigrant. He is an “illegal alien.” If he wa an immigrant he would be legally in the US and in most cases would have a green card. Illegal aliens are not immigrants. The open border people have pushed the word immigrant to describe illegals so long, and so frequently that it has taken hold. But it is wrong.

[dragnet2]

A construction worker who became a witness in a federal workplace safety investigation after he was injured during the collapse of a new Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans was deported by immigration authorities Friday, his lawyers said.

On Oct. 14, two days after the collapse, Mr. Ramirez Palma, an immigrant from Honduras who was not authorized to remain in the country, was arrested while on a fishing trip and then detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

He's allegedly injured yet he goes on a fishing trip 2 days after his alleged injury? This seems a bit odd.

[TigersEye]

It proves my thought that the FedMob is intractably corrupt.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Did he think that being a witness to a building collapse shielded him from the immigration laws?

[lurk]

You know two things right at the start. The engineers and inspectors are corrupt.

[david1292]

Arrest the management. Hiring illegals and paying off construction inspectors putting lives in danger.

[AlaskaErik]

But even as one arm of the federal government sought his help, another pressed ahead with his deportation, in a move that New Orleans officials, immigration advocates and labor lawyers said could have a chilling effect on immigrant workers who encounter safety violations and could also hamper the investigation into the Hard Rock Hotel collapse.

If workers were vetted properly in the first place, this wouldn't be an issue, as only US citizens would be hired.

[fella]

He saw the charges go off proving that it was an inside job.

[Pollster1]

I wish we had deported him before he whet through that event. Deport all illegals. No exceptions.

[VTenigma]

Maybe if they wern’t employing illegals the wrong shoring braces would not have been removed. Maybe, maybe not but that job was a fustercluck and an employer with those employment practices may have other issues.

[relictele]

We must not deter victims and witnesses of construction catastrophes from coming forward,” the New Orleans City Council president, Helena Moreno, and vice president, Jason Williams, said in a statement this week.

Memo to Helena & Jason: sloppy and dangerous work on construction sites is almost always down to sloppy and dangerous workers from Latin America.

There are also a legion of stories about sloppy and dangerous work in residential construction. Shelves and cabinets that pull out of the dry wall with a tug. Electrical work that is a million miles from code. Anything and everything that can be hidden and therefore ignored. They will do it, pocket the hard currency, tell no tales and move on - usually with the full knowledge of the general contractor or *ahem* custom home builder.