American workers stiffed at Wal-Mart site, but then the cavalry shows up
Highly unusual but very welcome news out of Pennsylvania, where federal agents detained over 100 illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico, at a Wal-Mart construction site.
Best of all, a local official chucks the typical Chamber-of-Commerce-bullshit about how great it is with “migrant” labor and instead serves up some God-honest truth:
At least 120 illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, were detained, Schuylkill County Sheriff Frank McAndrew said. He said he began investigating the site and contacted federal officials after getting complaints from local tradespeople.
“You’ve got a situation here where illegal immigrants are coming into Schuylkill County and taking (local union workers’) jobs for eight bucks an hour. They are working for poverty wages, and creating unemployment because our skilled tradesmen are out of work,” McAndrew said.
(HT: LaShawn Barber)
