A cleaning agency that serviced the home of Sec. Michael Chertoff, the guy responsible for defending the borders of the country, has been getting his home cleaned by border jumpers.
It seems the company was doing the due diligence, accepting the paperwork and turning it in. They even had the Secret Service checking it before they started cleaning. Nevertheless, ICE did a check and found some folks that were not supposed to be in the country:
In addition to the Chertoffs’ house, Reid said, his service once cleaned the Washington home of former president Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), now secretary of state-designee, as well as homes of another Bush Cabinet member and Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. In those cases, he said, his company worked as a subcontractor and billing was done by a larger contractor firm.
The employer is facing a $22,000 fine, and after reading the article, I’m ok with that:
In February, ICE agents singled out Reid’s company, and they subpoenaed two years of payroll and I-9 records this summer, a U.S. official said. Reid was fined $2,750 for hiring violations and $20,130 for not completing paperwork.
His offenses included failing to ask for IDs from or fill out I-9 forms for several workers who turned out to be in the country illegally.
But isn’t it a little, no VERY hypocritical of the same government who refuses to secure the border to then turn around and fine someone for having illegals on the workforce?
It’s just tough for me to accept the government taking the property of individuals when they can’t even build a fence across the border.
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