While Speaking in Mexico City: Nancy Peloisi says Walmart sting "Terrorizing"

[Chuckiechan]

She's a San Francisco Democrat! People vote for her because they like to step over the homeless and their excrement. (Excuse me, "Urban Outdoorsmen") It's part of the charm of visiting San Francisco.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...c_15&printer=1

Sadly, her seat is as safe as Fidel Castro!

[M_Six]

Her home district politics aside, she makes a good point. Instead of arresting the illegal workers, they should be arresting the people that hire them. But that would mean you'd have to arrest half of Congress and thousands of wealthy folks across the country. Hmm. Can't do that, too many of them vote Republican. Best we just stick to arresting the workers.

[John Prophet]

Could it be possible that wal mart is only in contact with, say....the boss of the cleaning crew..as in the owner of the business....I doubt walmart hires the actual workers themselves....more like they contract the "Manny's Professional Cleaning Service"....its up to Manny to say who is on the actual crew.

[Chuckiechan]

Wal Mart is going to get in trouble over this. Fined probably.

It seems that management knew that many were illegal aliens. Oddly enough they are required to report the breaking of laws...

Note: generally, if 90% of your work is with one company you incur a large amount responsibility for the employee.

For example, you cannot allow company policies to be broken because they work for someone else. It is a company policy not the hire illegal aliens. (Standard boilerplate)...

[pickel]

Another Bush-O- nomics .I feel for the workers but they knew the chances when they crossed the line. I hope Walmart gets all it deserves. Maybe they could contribute a Billion to the war effort, I'm they have a few laying around. Audit all their management employees, what do you reckon they might find ?????

[Theophylact]

Incidentally, most of the illegal immigrants involved were not, as you might expect, Latino or Chinese, but Eastern European/former Soviet:

ederal officials said yesterday that the leading nation of origin for the janitors caught in Thursday's raids was Mexico, with 90. The Czech Republic was second with 35, followed by Mongolia with 22, Brazil with 20. Uzbekistan, Poland, Russia, Georgia and Lithuania each had about a dozen.

(from The New York Times)

[Chuckiechan]

That was a "politically correct sting"!

[Theophylact]

And here's an interesting article, also from the New York Times (FRYYY). Seems that thousands of illegal immigrants are streaming across the Mexican/American border between Baja and California -- but they're Americans:

Baja is closer by land and air to the United States than it is to the rest of Mexico; state officials recorded more than 30 million trips by Americans who spent well over $1 billion last year. They say they have no idea how many Americans are living in Baja today, because a certain number are illegal immigrants who never register their presence. Anecdotal and statistical evidence suggests that the number is more than 100,000, probably far more, and growing fast since the Sept. 11 attacks and the souring of the economy in the United States two years ago.

"Since 2001, we have seen a boom in real estate sales, and the full-time population of Americans is growing rapidly," said Tony Colleraine, an American in San Felipe, about 160 miles southeast of San Diego. He said about one-quarter of the town's roughly 30,000 residents were Americans, many of whom want to "get away from the regulations and rhetoric, and get out of the bull's-eye" in the United States.

In Rosarito, an hour's drive south of the United States border, about one-quarter of the 55,000 residents are Americans. "An increasing number of Americans are moving here to escape their government's policies and the costs of living," said Herb Kinsey, a Rosarito resident with roots in the United States, Canada and Germany. "They find a higher standard of living and a greater degree of freedom."

At least 600,000 Americans — again, an acknowledged undercount based on government records — are permanent residents of Mexico. That is by far the largest number of United States citizens living in any foreign country.