The company which built much of the U.S. border fence in San Diego, Calif., agreed to pay $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants.
Two executives from Golden State Fence may also face jail time in the case.
Attorneys for the company told National Public Radio that the case proves the need for a guest-worker program.
After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U.S. Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company’s 750 workers may have been in the country illegally.
Golden State Fence built millions of dollars’ worth of fencing around homes, offices, and military bases. Its president and one of its Southern California managers will pay fines totaling $300,000. The government is also recommending jail time for Melvin Kay and Michael McLaughlin, probably about six months. — National Public Radio
Let me get this straight. American workers didn’t want to build a border fence, so they had to hire illegal immigrants to do it. And by all accounts (PDF) the illegal immigrants did indeed build a proper fence, which pushed illegal immigration out to the more dangerous desert areas.
Makes you wonder just who benefits from a border fence, anyway. Perhaps it’s the illegal immigrants?
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Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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Gölök
Dec 19, 2006
Hah! Typical, I wonder how many legal immigrant protesters realize they lose jobs to the outsourcing and illegal immigration. Reminding me of Dick Lamm’s keynote Reform address, ‘You can’t import workers while your exporting jobs.’ Might be a paraphrase, it’s from 1996.
Forget 9/11, worry about losing 9/17. A wise man once said that the tyrranny will come in the guise of a foreign invader.
Q
Dec 20, 2006
i bet they know where all the weaknesses are… hehehe
Gulag
Feb 28, 2007
This is exactly why we need to rethink our provincial and short-sighted racist stance on immigration. Without cheap and willing labor, our economy falls apart and welcome to the Great Depression II. If you like buying family size bundles of toilet paper at Walmart, endless Doritos, and everything else for a fraction of what the rest of the world pays — welcome the immigrants who make it possible. BTW, most all illegals want to make money and go back to their countries of origin where it can actually be worth something. Ever try buying a house in LA on minimum wage? Impossible.
CARISSA
Mar 14, 2007
i HATE YOU PEOPLE WHOS iDEA WAS THIS
Michael Hampton
Mar 29, 2007
Golden State Fence executives Mel Kay and Michael McLaughlin were each sentenced Wednesday to six months of home confinement, 1,040 hours of community service and three years probation. In addition, Kay received a $200,000 fine, and McLaughlin was fined $100,000.
Anonymous
Apr 23, 2007
No esto no esta bien. Simplemente es todo lo que puedo decir NO ESTA BIEN.
Scott
Jul 31, 2007
It is always the pig who cries racist. That would make every country in the world that defends their borders racist. An easy word to use for a lack of a good argument.
I guess that would make the Mexican government racist and hypocrites by the way they treat illegals crossing their southern borders from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.