The investigation was mainly focused on the ID badges issued by the Department of Aviation, and they found the 110 of the 134 badges given to Ideal Staffing didn't match the people who was wearing them. Oops.
Richard Fitzgerald, a U.S. Attorney, said in a statement, "If we are to ensure public safety, we must know who has access to the secure areas of airports. A fundamental component of airport safety is preventing the use of false identification badges, and punishing those who commit or enable such violations."
I think that ChicagoRay, a Chicago-area blogger, summed it up great in his post: More Jobs Americans Wouldn't Do?. While it might have cost a little more than minimum wage, qualified Americans could have easily been found for these positions. The nation's unemployment rate is about 4.7% right now, and several of those people have been laid off from factories cutting workers, so you can't tell me that there aren't people out there will good work experience, at least better than the illegals.
While I recognize the fact that not all illegal aliens are pulling stunts like these and are just trying to make an honest living, we need to look at the big picture and see that our safety is ask risk because of a select few. Therefore, any of them currently here caught doing anything (else) illegal need to be prosecuted and immediately deported. We, as a nation, cannot afford to have another September 11 on our hands right now. I do believe that we are considerably safer today than we were six years ago, but there are clearly still holes in the system that need to be fixed, and the best way to do that is to rid the country of those who are not supposed to be here or not doing the things that they are supposed to do, such as infilitrating secure areas of airports.
3 comments:
What does this incident have to do with illegal immigration?
Yeah, illegal immigrants did it. If black people did it, would you say we should deport all blacks?
Yeah, we need better airport security, and it's very bad when people can get places they should be with fake badges. But if they could do it, anyone else could. So, we should just make sure no one can do that, rather than getting rid of a certain category of people.
I'm not a big fan of taking away something for everyone because of the wrongs of a few. Just because these were immigrants doesn't mean we should deport the whole lot of them. Should we deport all legit immigrants from the middle east because of 9/11? If a group of brits bombed a building, should we deport everyone from England? While we're at it, let's just deport everyone who wasn't born in America.
Haakaa hit the nail on the head. I fail to see the connection between what happened and illegals posing a threat to the country. It seems like a coincidence to me, a coincidence that people who support the idea of deporting illegal immigrants are latching onto as if it was the norm.
Thanks for the HT Reason, and to Haakaa Päälle and Yams it has everything to do with illegal immigration, they aren't immigrants, they are illegal immigrants here illegally.
Big difference than the "legal European immigrants" who wait years to come to this country under all the rules instead of jumping the border or swimming the rio grande. This city is filled to the brim with them and we are frankly tired of it.
This slipshod staffing company had stolen badges from the airport that I live 5 miles away from and was hiring illegal immigrants with those false and stolen credentials, Illegals who were a threat to the security of the entire airport and it's passengers .. What more do you want Haakaa Päälle?
If they're kept out of the country in the first place Americans would have those jobs, not illegals driving down the wages working for nothing who are subject to bribery threats from the company that hired them and possibly even terrorists that find out they are illegals by threatening to turn them in to authorities if they don't help them etc..
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