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  I used to work for a small company but they now only employ illegals because as the boss said they are cheaper than you! would like someone to investigate the Norwood Inn in Norwood colrado for their practices especially on the illegals they have hired.

  kathy Posted March 7, 2008 10:25 PM
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  Read the last paragraph. Wal-Mart never "knowingly" hired illegal immigrants in the first place, so that's toothless. Making its subcontractors take "reasonable" steps to avoid hiring illegal aliens is something, but not much.

  As usual with Garcia, there is more bark than bite here.

  Tired and Sad Posted March 24, 2005 4:42 PM
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  How is an employer supposed to know his employees are illegal, if a plausible fake green card with a Social Security Number no one can verify costs $40? I put the number at 25-30 million illegal alien workers in the US today. Ever seen what a thousand files looks like, let alone a million? The enforcement of illegal employers would be best organized during the next unemployment boom so that they have to raise wages when the demand increases instead of taking illegal foreign nationals. Wal-Mart does not need illegal workers when they can essentially hire them overseas through the millions of containers they import each year.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 23, 2005 6:09 PM
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  Well, you have to start somewhere...As the French philosopher Pascal once observed; "Law without force is impotent". Luckily, here in Suffolk County, New York things are somewhat better. Our county executive has (according to the papers) established a working relationship with the ICE team. Currently they are rounding up criminal illegal aliens. The next step is to crack down on companies hiring these people under existing immigration laws. No jobs, no illegals?

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 23, 2005 10:50 AM
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  I was in Sydney, Austrailia about eight years ago and read in the local paper that the Australians decided they had too many illegal New Zealanders. So they mailed out 60,000 letters advising them to leave the country or be removed. A firm link between address, employment authorization, and tax information would serve this problem well. But, alas the money being made dictates the policy. I'm tired of the myth that America would fall apart if it weren't for the illegal aliens. Perhaps if a Big Mac and a carwash cost more, more Americans would wash their own car and cook their own burger. We've grown fat and lazy.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 21, 2005 6:04 PM
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  "Ya'll come clean, now. We got lucky with Wal-Mart, so we need your help on future investigations"......

  Wal-Mart makes $11 million every half hour....what a joke....

  How many Customs laws were utilized in this "investigation"?

  ICEd Through Posted March 21, 2005 10:37 AM
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  What they forgot to say was that this $11 million represented about 21 minutes of sales for their stores in 2004.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 21, 2005 8:05 AM
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  It appears our government is more interested in fining and collecting money from the big pockets than enforcing the laws and securing the US borders. I reference the recent investigations concerning the lax border security and the barrage of illegals (Hispanic as well as Middle Eastern nationals) coming across. This article indicated Wal-Mart is responsible for assuring that companies they hire have done their job in assuring no illegals. Well if the responsibility goes up line who up the line (government officials) should be made to pay the fine for the border security not doing their job? Also our government will not allow schools to question and thereby assure students are legal since it violates their right of privacy and some states allow Hispanics to obtain drivers licences without proper ID or being able to read or write? I would venture that not being able to read or write would severly impact issuance of an insurance policy. It's all about MONEY.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 21, 2005 8:01 AM
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  Mr. Garcia gets one settlement, and rattles the saber, thinking that all the bad boys of corporate America are going to come clean over illegal immigration. But, America, don't be fooled or misled so easily...

  Most illegal immigrants in this country are not hired in the systematic way that Wal-Mart allegedly did; they are the "lone wolf" day laborers who pick up lawn cutting or construction jobs in cities and towns all over America. Does Mr. Garcia really think he has or is going to get the manpower or legal/political backing to make a significant impact here? Even the U.S. Attorney for the MD-PA, Mr. Merino, doesn't believe that Wal-Mart committed a "crime". So, this settlement is a "slap on the wrist" and a promise "not to do it again" - isn't that sweet? Don't bet for one second that Wal-Mart isn't instructing their counsel on how to best shield the company with "plausible deniability" in the future: Heck, a "reasonable step" here, some non-sensical "compliance training" there, and what you don't know (but really should) can't hurt you. All this is is a last-ditch effort by a manager who has no other mission to fulfill, because he gave away the rest of the investigative store to the FBI, DEA, etc. Sadly, unlike terrorism or drugs, most Americans really don't care about the illegal immigrant cutting their lawn, and, Lord knows, the executive and legislative branch have no political will to truly enforce immigration laws or sanctions because they stand too much to lose from powerful small business and corporate lobbyists.

  The sooner Mr. Chertoff realizes this, the sooner he will see what a HUGE mistake was made in the sellout of ICE to anyone who came along to pick at its carcass, thanks to Mr. Ridge, Adm. Loy. Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Garcia.

  What a pathetic and shameful mess...

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 18, 2005 6:13 PM