August 29, 2006, - 9:58 am
Wal-Mart & Illegals: 1st, ICE Let’s Them Off the Hook; Now It’s Judge Greenaway
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Wal-Mart is notorious for employing illegal aliens. And getting away with it.
Last year, we detailed how , to keep costs down. Top Wal-Mart executives were caught on surveillance tape pressuring the contractors to hire only illegals and not to replace them with legal workers. But ICE didn’t do anything about it. They allowed Wal-Mart pay a few million (a drop in the bucket) and let them off the hook.
Later, Wal-Mart was again caught . Yet, again, ICE let Wal-Mart off the hook.
Now, U.S. District Judge Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. of Newark, New Jersey–a Bill Clinton appointee–is letting Wal-Mart off the hook. A group of illegal alien janitors sued Wal-Mart in federal court saying Wal-Mart knowingly hired illegal aliens, forced them into involuntary servitude, and consipired with contractors to launder money. Transcripts of tapes in ICE’s possession and excerpted, last year, in the Wall Street Journal and a number of Arkansas papers, back up the claims in the lawsuit 100%. But Judge Greenaway doesn’t give a whit. Instead, yesterday, he ruled the aliens have inadequate proof to support these claims, and dismissed the important civil racketeering claims in the suit.
As a result of Judge Greenaway’s boneheaded decision, shares of Wal-Mart stock went up 55 cents a share, yesterday.
Although we are 100% against extending illegal aliens most rights that Americans have, we do support their right to sue employers because it is the only thing that keeps employers honest and gives them an incentive to hire legal American workers. ICE’s workplace enforcement is barely there. After the wimper of in , May, and , we haven’t seen much. And that has everything to do with the fact that Senate immigration legislation, containing a guest worker/illegal alien amnesty program, is DOA.
Jeers to Judge Greenaway for letting Wal-Mart, yet again, get away with employing illegal aliens. Double Jeers to ICE for never doing anything to Wal-Mart about it, either.
Talk about a company having nine lives in violating immigration laws. Wal-Mart is it.
More details on Judge Greenaway letting Wal-Mart off the hook from Bloomberg News Service.
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Isn’t it funny that the reason LIBERALS hate Wal-Mart is because it doesn’t give its employees better health care benefits for part time workers? That’s their bug-a-boo. Forget about the fact that they hire all these illegals – THAT doesn’t bother them.
Thee_Bruno on August 29, 2006 at 10:45 am