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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. � 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