December 27th, 2006 by Jemaleddin Cole

Border Fence Firm Snared for Hiring Ille­gal Workers:

A fence-​building com­pany in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia agrees to pay nearly $5 mil­lion in fines for hiring ille­gal immi­grants. Two exec­u­tives from the com­pany may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.

Really. That’s NPR, not the Onion.

One Response to “And the world is sucked into a singularity of irony”

1. You knew it was bound to happen, I believe some­one actu­ally said “who are they going to get to build the fence, the people we are trying to keep out of course” Seems like I heard it from Jon Stew­art or some­thing. What did you expect them to do? Pay full labor prices to amer­i­cans who need jobs? Why would they do that? They are clos­ing down all the labor indus­tries in Amer­ica and ship­ping them off to 3rd world coun­tries where they can pay $1 a day for employ­ees and still get their prod­ucts made. Mean­while, here in the state’s people are get­ting depressed because they have no job, turn­ing to alco­hol or even drugs to kill the pain and they taking out their anger on their spouses and chil­dren. Which even­tu­ally leads to jail or sui­cide. People need to start look­ing at the whole pic­ture some­times and some com­pa­nies need to real­ize that they are killing people by moving out of the coun­try. If there was a way to boy-​cott those com­pa­nies I would but there are too many of them now and I would never be able to own any­thing nice again. I guess that makes me part of the prob­lem but at least I know it and would like to change it. Doesn’t that count for some­thing?

   — caffeine January 9th, 2007 at 6:54 am #