Fence building company.....
Snork!!
$5M is a slap on the hands to these guys. They should be in jail and their ill-gotten property seized to repay all of those who lost jobs or were given lower pay due to competition with illegals and taxpayers who paid their illegal employees' medical bills, education expenses, insurance expenses, incarceration expenses, etc!
ap article is also out there under title..
Fence co. cops to immigration charges
About time...
Let's see if they follow up and go after other companies hiring illegals.
guarenteed...if the these company executives spend time in jail in addition to paying fines (the cost of doing business).....the hiring of illegals would end in a heartbeat!!!!!
ping
Company, execs fined $5 million in hiring
CALIFORNIA -- Golden State Fence Co. in Southern California and two executives pleaded guilty Thursday to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and agreed to pay a combined penalty of $5 million. The executives could also go to prison. The fine is one of the biggest ever imposed in an immigration case, and the case represents a rare instance in which prosecutors brought criminal charges over the hiring of illegal immigrants. Among Golden State Fence's projects in recent years was construction of part of a 14-mile border fence in San Diego in the late 1990s.
-- The Associated Press
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/16246812.htm