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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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"Hank" <arminius@mail.cybertrails.com> wrote in message 
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> 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