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Title: Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Illegal Workers
Source: NPR
URL Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626823
Published: Dec 15, 2006
Author: Scott Horsley
Post Date: 2006-12-15 12:47:30 by Indrid Cold
Keywords: None
Views: 91
Comments: 2

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.

Golden State Fence built millions of dollars' worth of fencing around homes, offices, and military bases. Its president and one of its Southern California managers will pay fines totaling $300,000. The government is also recommending jail time for Melvin Kay and Michael McLaughlin, probably about six months.

It is exceptionally rare for those who employ illegal immigrants to face any kind of criminal prosecution, let alone jail time. Earlier this week, for example, immigration raids on six meat-packing plants netted almost 1,300 suspected illegal workers. But no charges were leveled against the company that runs the plants: Swift.

Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program.


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#1. To: Indrid Cold, *The Border* (#0)

An Israeli firm is involved in our border security now, so why not the very illegals too?

So Kafkaesque.

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973

robin  posted on  2006-12-16   13:56:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Indrid Cold (#0)

Golden State Fence's attorney, Richard Hirsch, admits his client broke the law. But he says the case proves that construction companies need a guest-worker program.

Surreal.

"We broke the law because the law doesn't serve us in a manner we like."

That'll hold up QUITE well in a courtroom. The prosecutor will eat these guys for breakfast.

Press 1 to proceed in English. Press 2 for Deportation.

mirage  posted on  2006-12-16   14:19:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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