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Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers

by Scott Horsley

A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.

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.

It is exceptionally rare for those who employ illegal immigrants to face any kind of criminal prosecution, let alone jail time. Earlier this week, for example, immigration raids on six meat-packing plants netted almost 1,300 suspected illegal workers. But no charges were leveled against the company that runs the plants: Swift.

Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6626823

Perhaps all the illegals being rounded up by the Feds should be put to work building the wall as punishment for breaking our laws, then when finished put them on the other side of that wall?

Originally Posted by Crusader01

Perhaps all the illegals being rounded up by the Feds should be put to work building the wall as punishment for breaking our laws, then when finished put them on the other side of that wall?

I second the vote!!!!

Originally Posted by Lone_Patriot

Originally Posted by Crusader01

Perhaps all the illegals being rounded up by the Feds should be put to work building the wall as punishment for breaking our laws, then when finished put them on the other side of that wall?

I second the vote!!!!

I third that vote...Besides, we need "test subjects" to see if the fence will actually work. After all, we dumb Americans are being told from our omipotent elected officials that a fence won't work!!!
Funny, I'll stand by the conviction that a fence WILL work.