Why did Bushco go after IFCO Systems for illegals?

[spanone]

I'm sure they chose their target well. Can't make a political connect/disconnect. No record I could find of political contributions...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2006-04-20-ifco-raids_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

[3waygeek]

1. Exactly

IFCO didn't pay the protection money the Rethugs demand of corps.

[BootinUp]

2. They were sacrificed

on the alter of Greed.

[sendero]

3. I heard on the radio today...

.. that this bust was based on "a tip from a year ago".

Here's a "tip" for the Keystone Kops out there - there are 10s of thousands of companies doing the same thing, and the reason they are is that NOBODY HAS GIVEN A SHIT FOR 20 years.

[PublicWrath]

4. Owned by Netherlands firm? You might want to research the companies

that compete with IFCO. Maybe one of their competitors belongs to a bushco friend. ?????

[spanone]

5. A bit curious....

Houstonian designated as chair of state commission

Houston Business Journal - January 15, 2004
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday designated Mike Hachtman of Houston as chair of the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission, for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2005. The commission provides compensation and medical care for workers or their survivors for work-related injuries or deaths.

Hachtman is the vice president of business development at IFCO Systems North America Inc. He is a former chief of staff at the Texas Railroad Commission.

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2004/01/12/daily39.html

[leftofthedial]

6. didn't bribe the right people

and offices in some possibly interesting states

[TreasonousBastard]

7. I think it's just because they're....

all idiots. And crooked idiots, to boot.

A few years ago there was a huge bust of the illegals working at Newark Airport-- it seems that the cleaning company hired nothing but illegals and they were busted, with the company paying some fines.

Coupla small things, though...

the company that was busted simply stopped cleaning at Terminal B, the International Arrivals terminal at the time, and continued to work at the other terminals

for several years before the bust, a small army of Spanish-speaking people were cleaning up around the feet of INS and customs officers and security inspectors who seemed not to notice them at all

last I saw, the cleaning crews, still all Spanish-speaking, had access to every single area of the airport, except Terminal B, and were happily sweeping and dum,ping trash cans without anyone noticing what they were doing

Terminal B still had a small army of Spanish-speaking cleaners, but they had a different dompany name on their jerseys

So, does anyone think "security" is nothing more than a cruel joke?

Better yet, if you look at who's working in the meatpacking plants, corporate bakeries and other food processing plants, sewing shops... does anyone think that "immigration" is any less of a cruel joke?