latimes
Comedian George Lopez once joked that a fence to keep out Mexicans would be built by the Mexicans themselves.
He doesn’t joke about that anymore.
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Since 1962 the Golden State Fence Company has installed chain link and ornamental iron.
They were selected by the Feds to build a section of the border fence.
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But an immigration check found undocumented workers on their payroll. They promised to clean up their act.
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But a follow up check a couple years later revealed that not only were those workers still on the job, as many as a third of all their workers were in the USA illegally.
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With revenue of $150 million per year,
Golden State got their wrist slapped.
They were fined $5million with the government settling for a felony conviction and 6 months of house arrest for its President Melvin Kay, while he continued to run the company.
He renamed the firm and launched a new website indicating he’s gonna try to stay out of further trouble.
But his attorney just shrugged and said this case simply proves that construction companies need a guest worker program asap.
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