🚀 go-pugleaf

Actually, if you own a business, and sub-out some of the construction, you 
ARE liable.  You can't get away with that crap.  You can't hide behind your 
subcontractors, pleading ignorance.
geotek


"Steve & Leslie Swartz" <leslieswartz@charter.net> wrote in message 
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> They weren't working for Wal-Mart.
>
> Not even close.
>
> Do you want to be held responsible for the hiring practices of the various 
> contractors for the developer who built your house?
>
> Wal-Mart shouldn't either . . .
>
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>    Steve & Leslie Swartz
>  Abolish the Police State
>              and
>     the Welfare State
>  VOTE LIBERTARIAN!
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> "geotek" <y@y.com> wrote in message 
> news:E3bgf.23282$dO2.2503@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
>> Look, I'm a Libertarian myself, but the key word is ILLEGAL.  They don't 
>> call them ILLEGAL immigrants for nothing.  They're working at a Wal-Mart 
>> construction site.  I think it's relevant.  Had they gotten injured, I'm 
>> sure they could have held Wal-Mart liable.  They aren't innocent.
>> geotek
>>
>>
>> "Steve & Leslie Swartz" <leslieswartz@charter.net> wrote in message 
>> news:U6uff.3364$wA6.464@fe06.lga...
>>> Once again- just what the hell does "Wal-Mart" have to do with any of 
>>> this?
>>>
>>> So why the "Wal-Mart" workers in the title?
>>>
>>> This union-driven Wal-Mart bashing is getting tedious . . .
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> *********************************
>>>    Steve & Leslie Swartz
>>>  Abolish the Police State
>>>              and
>>>     the Welfare State
>>>  VOTE LIBERTARIAN!
>>> ********************************
>>> "Hank" <arminius@mail.cybertrails.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:2emrn11sou38ei3344fn3jgl8ehml1b24n@4ax.com...
>>>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:57:10 -0500, Harry <harry@everhart.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>November 18, 2005
>>>>>From The Morning Call
>>>>>
>>>>>100 workers arrested at Schuylkill County Wal-Mart site
>>>>>Sheriff: Illegal immigrants worked for subcontractors.
>>>>>
>>>>>By Douglas B. Brill
>>>>>Special to The Morning Call
>>>>>
>>>>>Federal, state and local law enforcement officers raided a Wal-Mart
>>>>>distribution center construction site Thursday in Schuylkill County and
>>>>>arrested more than 100 people they said were illegal immigrants.
>>>>>
>>>>>More than 50 federal immigration agents and state and local officials
>>>>>with federal search warrants arrived about 8 a.m. at High Ridge
>>>>>Industrial Park in Butler Township, county Sheriff Francis V. McAndrew
>>>>>said.
>>>>>
>>>>>They questioned about 300 workers at the park off Interstate 81,
>>>>>McAndrew said. So many workers were arrested Thursday that law
>>>>>enforcement officials who brought one bus to round up suspects had to
>>>>>call for two more.
>>>>>
>>>>>McAndrew and Chris Fisanick, assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S.
>>>>>attorney's Middle District office in Pennsylvania, said they believed
>>>>>the suspects worked for subcontractors hired to help build the more 
>>>>>than
>>>>>1 million-square foot building.
>>>>>
>>>>>Fisanick declined to identify the subcontractors, none of whom had been
>>>>>charged as of Thursday afternoon, he said.
>>>>>
>>>>>But McAndrew said, ''It's hard to imagine how anyone could have 120
>>>>>immigrants working and you wouldn't know about it.''
>>>>>
>>>>>Wal-Mart spokesman Marty Heires said the detained workers were employed
>>>>>by subcontractors.
>>>>>
>>>>>Heires said Wal-Mart will cooperate with the agency that led the raid,
>>>>>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of the Department of
>>>>>Homeland Security.
>>>>>
>>>>>McAndrew said the raid was the culmination of a two- to three-month
>>>>>investigation that started when he got tips of possible illegal
>>>>>immigrants working at the site.
>>>>>
>>>>>It's unclear how those arrested were hired, Fisanick and McAndrew said.
>>>>>McAndrew said most are natives of Mexico, but he and Fisanick were
>>>>>unsure how long they had been in the United States or working at the
>>>>>site.
>>>>>
>>>>>Construction began about a year ago, McAndrew said.
>>>>>
>>>>>McAndrew said illegal immigrant workers have posed problems for
>>>>>Schuylkill County's largely blue-collar work force, which relies on
>>>>>construction and service jobs.
>>>>>
>>>>>''This is a hot-button issue now, something we're facing in our country
>>>>>that is a real difficult situation,'' McAndrew said. ''Illegal
>>>>>immigrants coming into our country and taking jobs our skilled
>>>>>contractors should have. It's not fair. S It needs to be addressed, and
>>>>>we're going to address it in Schuylkill County.''
>>>>
>>>> Be nice if our suck-ass government would be aggressive as McAndrew.
>>>>
>>>> Will
>>>
>>>
>>
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