I can't believe that the White House or the Republican party, for that matter, would let this happen, considering they get a lot of money from these businesses who hire in illegal immigrants.
Chertoff is either trying to make them look good or he has no clue.
To critics of the administration's immigration policies, the Department of Homeland Security sent out a strong message this week: Current laws can discourage illegal immigrants and those who hire them.
On Wednesday, federal immigration officials stormed light manufacturing facilities in Atlanta and 41 other US locales, arresting more than 1,100 suspected illegal immigrants as well as people believed to have hired them.
On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced a refocusing of resources that would target employers "harboring aliens for illegal advantages." The initiative is an attempt to go after such employers with the same intensity applied to other criminal organizations.
Wednesday's arrests were apparently timed to an announcement by Mr. Chertoff and the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Julie Myers, in Washington on Thursday.
Secretary Chertoff said the effort is aimed at those who are "exploiting illegal aliens" and "who adopt as a business model the systematic violation of immigration laws." The federal government will "make sure we come down as hard as possible."
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