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Well, you'll have to use a cattle prod to get the Bush Admin to do that.
I haven't read where the chairman and board of Wal-Mart have been
arrested and charged with employing illegals.


You have inside information that Wal-Mart hires illegals?

Eisboch

Outside information. In some of the cases, Wal-Mart claimed its
contractors hired the illegals, and it didn't know. That claim was b.s. of
course.

This case is a few years old. I didn't bother to probe google too deeply:

Feds: Wal-Mart Knew About Illegals
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 24, 2003(CBS/AP) Wal-Mart had direct knowledge of
immigration violations involving its cleaning contractors at stores across
the country, federal law enforcement sources said.

Federal agents raided Wal-Mart's headquarters and 60 of its stores across
the nation Thursday, arresting more than 300 illegal workers in an
immigration crackdown at the world's biggest retailer.

CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports that federal agents borrowed
Wal-Mart's price-cutting slogan "Operation Rollback" as the working title
for the sting.

Law enforcement sources said the investigation grew out of earlier probes
of Wal-Mart cleaning crew contractors in 1998 and 2001.

Federal agents tell CBS News that two cleaning contractors are under
investigation and that undercover surveillance shows Wal-Mart executives
and store managers knew illegal immigrants were cleaning stores. A number
of Eastern Europeans are among the suspected illegals rounded up, McNamara
reports.

"We have seen no evidence of this from the INS, and, if that turns out to
be true, we will cooperate fully with law enforcement officials," Wal-Mart
spokeswoman Mona Williams said.

The workers were arrested as they finished their night shifts at Wal-Mart
stores in 21 states. Agents also hauled away several boxes of documents
from an executive's office at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville.

An employer can face civil and criminal penalties for knowingly hiring
illegal immigrants or failing to comply with certain employee
recordkeeping regulations.

Wal-Mart Stores had sales last year of $244.5 billion. The company has
about 1.1 million employees in the United States, and it uses more than
100 third-party contractors to clean more than 700 stores nationwide,
Williams said.

"We require each of these contractors to use only legal workers," she
said.

All the arrested workers were in the country illegally, said Garrison
Courtney, a spokesman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They were
detained at local immigration offices. Those who had no criminal record
were released with instructions to appear before immigration judges.

Wal-Mart is not the first big company to be targeted in an immigration
investigation. Six managers at Tyson Foods, based one town away from
Wal-Mart in Springdale, were charged in an immigrant-smuggling case in
2001.

One defendant shot himself to death a few months after being charged, and
two managers entered guilty pleas early in the case. A jury acquitted the
poultry company and three other managers.

Ulysses A. Yannas, an analyst with the investment firm Buckman, Buckman
and Reid, said it is too much to expect Wal-Mart to keep track of all of
its vendors' workers. But he said the investigation could present a
problem for the company.

"It is a question of what else it might bring out. These are long,
drawn-out processes," Yannas said.

Top Wal-Mart officials learned of Thursday's sweep when store managers
began calling headquarters for guidance in dealing with the raids.

Courtney said agents searched the office of one of Wal-Mart's executives.
Williams, the spokeswoman, said they spent several hours in the office of
a "mid-level manager" at Wal-Mart's headquarters and carried away several
boxes of paperwork.

She said she did not know if any other Wal-Mart administrative offices
were searched.

The arrests were made at stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona,
Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, North
Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West
Virginia.




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Sadly no Wal-Mart execs were arrested.

They were caught and the company was punished as they should have been.
What cattle prod was used on the Administration to accomplish this?

Does the law allow for charging management individuals in this type of case?