Romney had never really fired the company, he just let things die down and kept them on.
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Romney is a RINO, a flip flopping RINO, that does not make it right to distort the facts. I had a roof put on my house, one of the guys was a Latino, I didn't check his ID, I didn't think it was my job.
RINO Romney had a company cut his lawn, he probably never touched a lawnmower in his life.
The company had hired an illegal. RINO Romney found out about it when the newspaper brought it to his attention. RINO Romney never said he fired the company he said he “threatened” to fire them if they didn't get rid of their illegals. They got rid of them but not for long.
Rick Perry got booed when he tried this during one of the debates because the whole world knows the story. It isn't our job to check who the companies that work for us hire. It should be the companies job to do that, I will be glad when congress puts teeth into a law that prevents people from hiring illegals.
You are the one distorting the facts.
Romney employed that same guy and his illegals for a decade, including during his time as Governor, Romney knew those illegals and addressed them in their Spanish language, one of the illegal Guatemalans, (most of the illegals were Guatemalan), had worked at their house for 8 years, they also got other work from Mitt’s recommendations, Romney endured a big scandal when the Globe busted him.
A year later (making it 11 years), after Romney lied in the debates when Giuliani called him on his “Sanctuary Mansion”, the Globe thought to send a reporter over there and found that Romney had never fired the landscaper and that the guy was still using Spanish speaking Guatemalan illegals.
Romney had every reason to think those were illegals, and as Governor with state security personnel, he sure could have checked on the regular workers at his personal residence, instead he did nothing, even after the scandal broke in 2006.
“Standing on stage at a Republican debate on the Gulf Coast of Florida last week, Mitt Romney repeatedly lashed out at rival Rudy Giuliani for providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants in New York City.
Yet, the next morning, on Thursday, at least two illegal immigrants stepped out of a hulking maroon pickup truck in the driveway of Romney’s Belmont house, then proceeded to spend several hours raking leaves, clearing debris from Romney’s tennis court, and loading the refuse onto the truck.
In fact, their work was part of a regular pattern. Even after a Globe story in December 2006 highlighted Romney’s use of a landscaping company that employs illegal immigrants to tend to his grounds, Romney continued to employ Community Lawn Service With a Heart - until yesterday. The company continued to employ illegal immigrants.
The two workers confirmed in separate interviews with Globe reporters last week that they were in the country without documents. One said he had paid $7,000 to a smuggler to escort him across the desert into Arizona; the other said he had come into the country with a student visa that has expired. Both were seen working on the lawn by either Globe reporters or photographers over the last two months.”
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“”After this same issue arose last year, I gave the company a second chance with very specific conditions,” Romney said in the statement. “They were instructed to make sure people working for the company were of legal status. We personally met with the company in order to inform them about the importance of this matter. The owner of the company guaranteed us, in very certain terms, that the company would be in total compliance with the law going forward.
“The company’s failure to comply with the law is disappointing and inexcusable, and I believe it is important I take this action,” Romney said.
Romney’s account differs from that of landscape company owner Ricardo Saenz, who said that Romney didn’t press the issue of whether his workers were in the country illegally. Asked if the Romney household expressed reservations about rehiring him after last year’s story, he said, “Why would they have any problem?”
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/12/05/more_immigrant_woes_for_romney_1196840293/