Employer arrests, but not at WALMART ...

Managers and employees of a Sierra Vista, Arizona company, Seven Sun Drywall, were arrested by ICE yesterday. They are reported to have "conspired with fraudulent-document makers to hire and protect dozens of illegal immigrants."

Some of the information in the Arizona Daily Star article implies that managers were warned in December of 2005, through an audit, about hiring illegal entrants.

If the information in this article is correct it appears that this company, like WalMart, knowingly allowed illegal entrants to work for them.

But managers of a small Arizona drywall company are arrested. The illegal entrants will most likely be incarcerated and fed poorly and humiliated until they are shipped out of the country.

This country has put itself in a bind has it not?

When authorities look the other way and allow an underground population of undocumented non-citizens then hysterics rant that 'these people' are using our tax money; that they are on the dole; and that, horror of horrors they actually might get medical care in an emergency.

On the other hand when the laws become so draconian that even 'these people' stay away as happened in Colorado, crops don't get picked and our society looks back to the good ol' days of chain gangs (a fine old southern tradition).

Our lawmakers have allowed non-action, prejudice, fear and stupidity to rule on the immigration front. The United States and a lot of unfortunate people are now paying the price.

Steve Camarota, "director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based organization that seeks to halt illegal immigration" is quoted as follows:

"The administration is trying to show it's serious about enforcement to get its amnesty or legalization," Camarota said.

The culture of acceptance for illegal workers won't change until the agency systematically goes after employers who are hiring illegal immigrants, whether it be five or 500, he said.

"The little fish are in the sea in which the big fish swim," Camarota said. "It's the general contempt for the rule of law, the widespread acceptance of illegal immigration at the small employers that allows the spectacular cases to happen."

Imagine that, a 'general contempt for the rule of law' in this country. No, no, say it ain't so. Not a contempt for the rule of law like outing an undercover FBI agent? Not a contempt for the rule of law like firing a prosecutor who was investigating a Republican, Arizona's own Rick Renzi?

Oh, I get it. The rule of law is for immigrants and small drywall firms and the majority of us.

But those laws don't apply to Bush or his brain. They don't apply to Cheney. They don't apply to WalMart. And though they do still apply on occasion to such as Libby and Renzi, there are ways, aren't there, to get around them if these hanger-ons make themselves useful enough. Fire a prosecutor here, a pardon there ...

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The quotes in this article from: 7 held in crackdown by Brady McCombs, Arizona Daily Star.

For another perspective, than the administrations as voiced through the Star, read

It's time to call it what it is: a policy of mass deportation at Migra Matters.