- MEXICO CITY (Reuters)
- U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Friday police raids on
dozens of U.S. Wal-Mart stores in the search for illegal immigrants this
week amounted to "terrorizing" workers.
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- "It instills a great deal of fear in people who
are only trying to earn a living and put food on the table for their family,"
Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters on a Congressional visit
to Mexico.
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- Hundreds of workers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (nyse: WMT
- news - people) locations across the United States were arrested on immigration
charges on Thursday in an investigation into contractor cleaning crews.
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- "We think there might be a better way to go about
this because the fact is that it is against the law for the employer to
hire these people so there should be more focus on the employer and less
in these terrorizing raids," Pelosi said.
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- She was speaking after meeting Mexican President Vicente
Fox for talks on immigration and border security.
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- Pelosi said the Wal-Mart raids showed the need to legalize
undocumented workers in parts of the economy other than just the agricultural
sector.
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- Several bills to grant legal status to illegal immigrants
working in U.S. agriculture are before Congress, including the Berman-Cannon
bill which would let an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants earn legal
residency.
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- Comment
From Jack Stonehill
10-26-3
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- What a joke. This woman is politically whoring herself
in Mexico hoping to keep her California Latino voters in line. Sickening.
It is also somewhat amusing to note the Wal-Mart cleanup primarily netted
EASTERN EUROPEAN illegals. Meanwhile, there are between 10-15 million
illegal Mexicans in this country dragging it ever downward while the cops
and INS go after a fly speck's worth of Eastern Euros! Again, what a pathetic
joke it all is.
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