Cleaning Firm Used Illegal Workers at Chertoff Home

[Newsjock]

Source: Washington Post

Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service screened the IDs of employees for a Maryland cleaning company before they entered the house of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation's top immigration official.

The company's owner says the workers sailed through the checks -- although some of them turned out to be illegal immigrants.

Now, owner James D. Reid finds himself in a predicament that he considers especially confounding. In October, 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?"

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121003524.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[Dr.Phool]

1. And this is surprising?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[johncoby2]

2. Chertoff is a Jerkoff

[boppers]

3. Waitasec...

He hired people.

He didn't do the paperwork.

Turns out that some of his hires were illegal.

He blames the government for not doing his paperwork for him?

[not fooled]

4. "Mr. Homeland Security"

Yeah, right! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

So this means that mebbe his house was cleaned...by a TERRAIST!!!

[formercia]

9. Domestics and clerical help make good spies

They are usually underpaid, unappreciated and often more intelligent than the people they work for. That makes them easy to recruit.

[harmonicon]

5. umm....

yeah.... way to go, dude.

[HEyHEY]

6. And yet, Cat Stevens still can't get a flight.

[Pastiche423]

7. Delicious irony

[treestar]

8. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[nichomachus]

10. Still not as bad

as the regional Homeland Security director in NE who knew that her cleaning woman was illegal and counseled her on how to avoid detection.