Immigration Crackdown Hits Fence Builder

Posted on: January 14th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Business ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Immigration ] [ Top Stories ] [ Blogante Business ] [ California ] [ San Diego ]
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“He even built fences at two immigration jails, a Border Patrol station and the U.S.-Mexico border.

Which is the second irony, because he admits now that many of his company’s fences were built by illegal immigrants. Federal authorities knew it, and they went after him tenaciously, determined to send him to prison as an example to other employers who hire undocumented workers.

They had plenty of evidence. Prosecutors determined that about a third of his 750 workers were illegal immigrants. They told Kay’s lawyers of videotaped interviews with about a dozen employees who had been caught in raids at Golden State Fence Co. in 1999 or 2004 — exposed as illegal immigrants — and then were rehired by the company, regardless.”*

*From: http://ap.google.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish

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