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Screw Wal-Mart, Shop Target !!!!!

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Federal immigration agents detained more than 100 workers at a construction site for a new Wal-Mart distribution center, authorities said.
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The workers, who Wal-Mart said were employed by a subcontractor and not by the retailing giant, were detained Thursday on suspected immigration violations, said Department of Homeland Security spokesman Marc Raimondi. They were being taken to Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers for processing, he said.
More than 50 federal immigration agents, joined by the U.S. Labor Department, Social Security Administration and state police, raided the construction site near Pottsville, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
Wal-Mart spokesman Marty Heires said the company would cooperate fully with federal authorities.
"We have written contracts with these subcontractors requiring that they follow all applicable local, state and federal employment laws," he said in a statement.
At least 120 illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, were detained, Schuylkill County Sheriff Frank McAndrew said. He said he began investigating the site and contacted federal officials after getting complaints from local tradespeople.
"You've got a situation here where illegal immigrants are coming into Schuylkill County and taking (local union workers') jobs for eight bucks an hour. They are working for poverty wages, and creating unemployment because our skilled tradesmen are out of work," McAndrew said.
In 2003, a raid of 60 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states led to the arrests of 245 illegal workers. An affidavit claimed a pair of senior Wal-Mart executives knew cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants. The retailer agreed to pay $11 million in March to settle the case but denied senior executives knew of the hirings
 
I have been boycotting Wal-Mart AND Sam's Club for over a year now because of their shady business practices.
 
Yes, much better to buy your truckloads of overpriced, Chinese imported plastic crap from Target than Wal-mart . . . .

Wal-Mart gets way too much press on this kind of thing. Have the INS raid any national hotel chain, or large chain Chinese food joint, or any home construction zone in America and you'd get the same . . . tons of illegals doing work Americans are too darn lazy to take . . .
 
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How about screw both of them. Target doesn't allow the Salvation Army to collect change infront of it's stores during the holiday seasons.
 
BenderGonzales said:
Why on earth is this in the regionals forum?

Where have you been ?? :rolleyes:

The regionals' forum is where all of the ill-informed, juvenile, & meaningless B.S. of no consequence is often posted... But, hey, it's fun to read. :D

Go ahead and boycott I say, I'm sure your $50/mo. will be sorely missed amongst their $250,000,000,000.00 ++++ annual revenues.
 
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h25b said:
Go ahead and boycott I say, I'm sure your $50/mo. will be sorely missed amongst their $250,000,000,000.00 ++++ annual revenues.

I am sure it won't be missed, but at least I am doing my part and not contributing to it's revenues.
 
capt. megadeth said:
I am sure it won't be missed, but at least I am doing my part and not contributing to it's revenues.

I'd rather give Wal-Mart my $50/month than FRENCH OWNED Target.

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I'm off to sensetivity training now. Have fun.:D
 
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ohplease! said:
dig a little deeper......

There's nothing else to dig. Target is an American corporation owned by American stockholders. Just like Wal-Mart.
 
DetoXJ said:
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Federal immigration agents detained more than 100 workers at a construction site for a new Wal-Mart distribution center, authorities said.

HA! well.....who's going to finish the construction of the wal-mart? white boys? I dont thinks so. God forbid for a white man to get his hands a little dirty or work under the blazing sun or freezing cold.
 
DX Rick said:
How about screw both of them. Target doesn't allow the Salvation Army to collect change infront of it's stores during the holiday seasons.

Actually that is true. They're still not allowed at Target.
 
SiuDude said:
Actually that is true. They're still not allowed at Target.

would I ever tell a lie?
 
As for Target not being US owned, well, it might be true, but if so, they have hidden it well. Looking over the stockholders, their financials etc., I see no indication that they are not US held. Snopes apparently agrees:

"The Target Corporation is a publicly held U.S. firm which has been based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since it began as the Dayton Dry Goods Company in 1902. Target is not now, nor has it ever been, foreign-owned."

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/target.asp

As for the Salvation army thing, they used to allow SA and only SA to solicit in front of their store, they have changed that policy, but has entered into a partnership with the Salvation Army.

More info about Target can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Stores
 
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ohplease! said:
dig a little deeper......

You might want to follow your own advice.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-target-veterans.htm

Go to the last entry on that page, the 2003 anti-French revision.

Since you're so sure that the French are in charge of Target, why don't you show us your source instead of dancing around the issue? You sure didn't get your information from the New York Stock Exchange or from the Target Corporation.
 
Dizel8 said:
As for Target not being US owned, well, it might be true, but if so, they have hidden it well. Looking over the stockholders, their financials etc., I see no indication that they are not US held. Snopes apparently agrees:

"The Target Corporation is a publicly held U.S. firm which has been based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since it began as the Dayton Dry Goods Company in 1902. Target is not now, nor has it ever been, foreign-owned."

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/target.asp

As for the Salvation army thing, they used to allow SA and only SA to solicit in front of their store, they have changed that policy, but has entered into a partnership with the Salvation Army.

More info about Target can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Stores

From the Wikipedia link you gave us:

"Target has a standard no-solicitation rule at its properties, as it wishes to provide a "distraction-free shopping experience for its guests". Exemptions to this policy were previously made for the Salvation Army to station its traditional red kettles and bell-ringers outside Target stores during the Christmas season. However, the company decided that it would no longer allow the Salvation Army to solicit on Target Stores' properties in 2004 because they believed it was a distraction to their guests and because an increasing number of other nonprofit groups also wanted to be granted exceptions to the "no solicitation" policy to support charity [4]. Many religious organizations objected to this decision, and called for boycotts of Target; however, this has failed as Target's financials over the last year have been setting company records and Target's same-store sales have been outperforming Wal-Mart. Additionally, when Target ousted the Salvation Army bell ringers, Target Corporation said that they planned on seeking an alternate method to donate to the organization. For example, Target donates annually to the United Way (the Salvation Army is a member of the United Way coalition)."
 

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