Posted on 12/04/2007 5:21:31 PM PST by JRochelle
Because the Boston Globe was looking into it. From the paper, posted a short time ago:
Mitt Romney, who has taken a tough stance against illegal immigrants in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, has continued to employ a company that uses illegal immigrants to do lawn work at his home.
Responding to inquiries from the Globe, which had observed the work taking place at his house and interviewed the workers, Romney tonight fired the company for failing to comply with the law…
Romney has made illegal immigration a central campaign issue in his bid for the nomination. At last week's Republican debate in St. Petersburg, Fla., Romney was quick to attack Rudy Giuliani for safeguarding illegal immigrants in New York City.
Yet early the morning after the debate, immigrants from Central America who say they are here illegally were in plain view on the lawn in front of Romney’s salmon-colored mansion in Belmont. Chatting in Spanish, they hustled to rake massive clumps of leaves, dump them in barrels, and clear debris from his tennis court.
Their boss, Ricardo Saenz of Chelsea, was the same man who for a decade brought illegal immigrants and others to work for Romney, whom he had met through their shared Mormon faith. A year ago, the Globe broke the news that illegal immigrants landscaped Romney’s 2.5-acre property.
In the past two months, the Globe observed Saenz and his crew at Romney's estate once a week, except during the week of Thanksgiving…Last Thursday, the Globe interviewed two of the three workers who were at Romney's house. Both said they were illegal immigrants from Guatemala; one of the immigrants said the third worker was also here illegally….
His timing is impeccable. LOL
Cut and Run?
snickers.
I was waiting for him to do just this, it fits his pattern.
I am just surprised that it took him this long.
How is under that bus Ricardo?
Its on Drudge too!
More reason to vote HUNTER
Oye, hermana...aqui!
Way to go, Romney - drive home that point you’re A Mormon RINO.
Huckabee or Thompson.
***I am just surprised that it took him this long.***
It took him most of his life to join the NRA, but now, as of 14 months ago, he is a life long member.
His attorneys, advisers and some military experts he consulted probably told him it was the right thing to do.
I am one of many who sent him a link.
:)
He fired them now because he got caught....because the Boston Globe did what he should have done: ask the workers about their status.
If he was concerned about the illegal immigration problem, he’d have tried to get the company fined and the illegals deported.
Good old Mitt. Someone buy him a clue bat.
It’s winter. No one above the Mason-Dixon line cuts grass in the winter.
I don’t suppose the Globe has any illegals on the payroll...
On the other hand, I do need to lay some tile. It would be nice to hire some brown-skinned Spanish-speakers to wear some knee pads. I guess that makes me Presidential material!
Don’t you just love the “everybody’s doing it” defense?
He got caught and that is the biggest problem. And just last week this was brought up at the debate.
Hey Mitt, the guys on you lawn still had ‘funny accents’ as of today!
ping
Yes, everyone does it.
Since Mitt can’t get illegals off his own front lawn, I am convinced he can’t do a damn thing about it as President.
We have an acre to mow and we do it ourselves.
We must be old-fashioned.
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