The Young Turks

Its should come as no surprise...CEO and owner William Howard Jr is (or was after the raid )  a major Republican contributor and Bush and McCain supporter.

 < ICE Agents lead supected illegal workers Bob Smith, Jim Smith, Dave Smith and George Smith to ICE processing station in Montgomery.

In a statement issued after the raid, Howard Industries, the largest employers in the region, acknowledged that it was “visited” by immigration agents .“It is company policy that it hires only U.S. citizens and legal immigrants.”

Yep..as we suspected..."guest workers" are here to bust unions where they exist and lower wages for all workers...a favorite trick of Republicans.

 In addition,  The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) leveed $193,000 in penalties against Howard Industries for 54 violations of federal safety rules at the company’s two manufacturing locations. The violations were described this way:

“It is unconscionable for an employer to tolerate serious injuries, including amputations, as just a cost of doing business, rather than get out into the production areas and fix these numerous problems before employees get injured,” said Clyde Payne, director of OSHA’s Jackson Area Office.

Now for the second dirty little secret; Republicans who scream about  the laws in place to guarantee emergency medical treatment, the laws often cited by conservatives as being abused by illegals, secretly support the measure because they get free health care for the illegal workers...either at "faith based clinics" or emergency rooms avoiding costly workman's compensation and ugly questions about fake social security numbers.

Why do you think the law , Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act , passed by Reagan is still on the books after 6 years of a Republican majority under Bush or the  Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 that contains a provision for $250 million per year for fiscal years 2005-2008 in payments to providers for emergency health services provided to undocumented aliens was signed by Bush? Proof is in the pudding:

Alejandro Rodriguez, the illegal alien from Mexico, also enjoys an extremely high level of health care, relative to his home country. Unlike KenTX, Alejandro pays nothing for his health care. We have a two tier health care system, and everybody is happy

Not everybody, the 47 million uninsured Americans who can't get health insurance would be happy to know that Republicans can subsidize illegal workers to maximize big contributor profits by driving down wages ( adding more and more to the uninsured ranks) but can't seem to do any thing for Joe Sixpack.

Republicans can't be trusted to solve the immigration problem, health care problem or anything else unless it involves raping the Treasury.  They, and their contributors, make to much money off the status quo.