WALFART: 125 Illegal Workers Found at WalMart Site 970

It is obvious you have never dealt in business. It is not done in business. When a business hires a subcontractor, it is generally done because of that contractor's track record. I doubt you can point to any business that does as you suggested, but you leave out those businesses.

The topic header says 125 illegal workers. Home Depot has hundreds of stores nationwide. It's safe to say Home Depots facilitate in the hiring in more than 125 illegals.

I responded to the post because in normal business practices, it is impossible show that Wal-Mart is complicit in the hiring of illegals. Home Depot directly supports the hiring of illegals.

Tyson Foods Inc., one of the world's largest poultry processors, was indicted December 19, 2001, charged with 36 counts of recruiting illegal workers from Mexico and transporting them to several of Tyson's 57 poultry processing plants in the Midwest and South. According to the indictment, developed over 2.5 years of undercover work, Tyson managers arranged with smugglers to pick up workers just inside the US border, and then organized transportation for them from the border to its plants. Tyson managers paid the smugglers $100 to $200 a worker in "recruitment fees." (The migrants also paid the smugglers a fee).

The government has fined Wal-Mart for illegals, but illegals do get bogus I.D.s with bogus S.S. numbers. That sounds like a lapse in the H.R. departments while a company like Tyson actively pursues illegal workers.

It's pretty dense of you not to see the prejudice the poster has against Wal-Mart. Since you pointed the topic header to me, you failed to see the poster used WALFART instead of Wal-Mart. You letting it slide by shows that you are bigoted against Wal-Mart.

No. I do not work or do business with Wal-Mart, but I do stick up for them because I believe in free enterprise. Mentally challenged persons whine that Wal-Mart pays its workers sub-standard wages. Why does Wal-Mart continue to be one of the largest employers in the country? They whine that Wal-Mart destroys small businesses. Do they really think those small businesses pay their employees premium wages? Get real. The main complaint, Wal-Mart isn't unionized. Bingo! The construction trades constantly illegals. Major Construction uses union workers. Why aren't the unions ratting out those firms that hire illegals?

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