Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers

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A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.

After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U-S Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company’s 750 workers may have been in the country illegally.

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Jeffrey said:
A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.

After an immigration check in 1999 found undocumented workers on its payroll, Golden State promised to clean house. But when followup checks were made in 2004 and 2005, some of those same illegal workers were still on the job. In fact, U-S Attorney Carol Lam says as many as a third of the company’s 750 workers may have been in the country illegally.

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Great post.

It is about time there were some significant fines – and hopefully jail time – for employers hiring illegal immigrants.

I sure hope this will give a strong message to other such employers to stop such practice.

Thanks again.
 
If this action gets repeated a few hundred more times … a day, then we may start to see some diminution in the flow of illegal border crossers.

The word will get out that the norte americanos are meaning business.
 
A good step in the right direction, but isn’t it ironic that illegal workers are building the very fence that is supposed to keep them in Mexico? What a country.
 
davy39 said:
A good step in the right direction, but isn’t it ironic that illegal workers are building the very fence that is supposed to keep them in Mexico? What a country.
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Carlos Mencia suggested this very thing.
 
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