The thing that pisses me off is that rounding up the illegals is pretty much putting a band aid on a bullet wound. As long as we have people like Mr. Insolia, and worse, people further up, using illegal aliens as a resource to make money for themselves, it ain't gonna stop! These people are pushers and enablers, and the enemy or America and its laws! Looks like we need some Pentagon generals destroyed pronto, think it'll happen?:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=188351
Pentagon passes buck: Not our job -- No red flags raised on factory visits
By Jay Fitzgerald
Boston Herald General Economics Reporter
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - Updated: 12:38 AM EST
Pentagon inspectors didn’t report on alleged illegal hiring practices and wretched working conditions at a New Bedford sweatshop because it wasn’t their job, a spokesman said yesterday.
“It’s not our responsibility,” said Dick Cole, a spokesman for the Defense Contractors Management Agency, which monitors federal contractors as they perform work for the Pentagon.
Meanwhile, President Bush was forced to defend the raid on his trip through Latin America, telling reporters in Guatemala on Monday that immigrants must abide by the law.
“Just so you know, when we enforce the law we do so in a fair and rational way,” he said. “People are welcome, but under the law.”
Cole acknowledged that Pentagon inspectors regularly visited New Bedford’s Michael Bianco Inc. before last week’s massive raid by Homeland Security agents, who found hundreds of illegal immigrants toiling in “deplorable” conditions as they made backpacks for U.S. troops.
But he said inspectors, who visited Bianco two to four times a week, were focused on ensuring that the firm was making quality products and meeting Pentagon deadlines for deliveries, not on making sure Bianco was complying with federal wage, safety and hiring laws.
Critics of the Pentagon couldn’t believe that Department of Defense inspectors didn’t see anything at Bianco that would have raised red flags.
“They just can’t be that blind,” said Stephen Wishart, a researcher at Unite HERE, a union that has harshly criticized the Pentagon’s contracts with garment firms across the country.
Wishart said it’s common practice for inspectors at other government-contract garment sites to walk around factories and mingle with workers.
But Cole said inspectors don’t see everything that’s going on in factories. They work on loading docks, checking products after they come off assembly lines, and don’t meet with workers that often, he said.
In a statement last week, Bianco said Pentagon inspectors were there at least four times a week and the company contended that’s proof it ran a “satisfactory” operation-that even inspectors didn’t complain about before last week’s raid.