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To: bentway who wrote (439704)	12/11/2008 12:42:16 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 1575421

" ... he was fined $22,880 after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators said he failed to check identification and work documents and fill out required I-9 verification forms for employees, five of whom he said were part of crews sent to Chertoff's home and whom ICE told him to fire because they were undocumented. "Our people need to know," said the Montgomery County businessman. "Our Homeland Security can't police their own home. How can they police our borders?" Reid admits he made mistakes but called the fine so excessive that it may put him out of business. Several of his workers moved after ICE agents showed up at their homes, he said ... " What kind of business can't handle a $20K fine? LOL! The truth comes out in the next sentence, though. His business is not threatened by the fines, it is threatened by the departure of his cheap illegal labor force as a direct consequence of law enforcement. Tom