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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
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     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 . . .
>>
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>> *********************************
>>    Steve & Leslie Swartz
>>  Abolish the Police State
>>              and
>>     the Welfare State
>>  VOTE LIBERTARIAN!
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>> "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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