And we would be surprised because...?
they can cite 9/11 for destroying our civil liberties and the u.s. constitution but when it comes to their campaign supporters and making money, golly gee, they just can't manage to enforce the law...
95% is a HUGE number... after being caught out time and time again, you'd think they'd realize that people are actually paying attention... and, of course, the more under-handedness that gets exposed, the more attention people are going to pay... Submit To Propeller
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Illegal Hiring Is Rarely Penalized
Politics, 9/11 Cited in Lax Enforcement
By Spencer S. Hsu and Kari Lydersen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 19, 2006; Page A01
The Bush administration, which is vowing to crack down on U.S. companies that hire illegal workers, virtually abandoned such employer sanctions before it began pushing to overhaul U.S. immigration laws last year, government statistics show.
Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.
95% is a HUGE number... after being caught out time and time again, you'd think they'd realize that people are actually paying attention... and, of course, the more under-handedness that gets exposed, the more attention people are going to pay... Submit To Propeller
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6/19/2006
