Thursday, December 11, 2008
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff used a house cleaning service who employed illegal immigrants.
The irony is rich.
Every few weeks for nearly four years, the Secret Service allegedly screened the IDs of employees of Maryland-based Consistent Cleaning Service before they entered the home of the nation’s top immigration official.
The company’s owner, James D. Reid, says the workers sailed through the checks — although some of them turned out to be illegal immigrants.
Now, 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.
Reid raises an interesting point: “Our people need to know, our Homeland Security can’t police their own home. How can they police our borders?”
Chertoff declined to comment.
In addition to the Chertoff’s house, Reid said, his service once cleaned the Washington home of former president Bill Clinton and now secretary of state-designee, Hillary Clinton.
I don’t know about you but I certainly feel safer.
From the Left 
That’s deep.
It wasn’t Skeletor’s fault, Zoë Baird made him do it.
Hahahahahahaha!
No wonder why the terrorists love the USA!
Checking the documents used to authenticate the I-9 form is relatively simple.
The notion that the Secret Service in incapable of determining what is a fake ID and what is real, doesn’t bode well for our national security.
A dirty scandal behind the cleaning people???
No wonder we can’t secure our ports seven years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Where there isn’t a will, there isn’t a way.
Oh man. No wonder the Bush administration can’t secure this nation’s ports? If the Sec’y of Homeland Security can’t lead by example and not hire illegals to clean up his and Mrs.’slop, how can we expect the Feds to secure the Port of Los Angeles or Port of Miami? Oh well, the Skeletor should be working at Home Deport but not heading up Homeland Security.
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