Thursday, May 22, 2014

guest of honor


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.
gsfco.com/

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.

spa.usace.army.mil

But an immigration check found undocumented workers on their payroll. They promised to clean up their act.

topright.com

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.

spincycle

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.


thinkprogress.org

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