Public funded projects employing Illegals

June 18, 2006 in Border Security, Illegal Immigration

The Boston Globe points out several specific construction projects (projects funded with taxpayer dollars) in which the contractors are employing apparent illegal aliens in their work force. Of the Projects listed by the Globe the one that stands out to me the most is the $9.8 Million project at UMass-Dartmoth Dormatories. The contractor has 87 employees at the site and the Globe determined that at least 55 of those employees had provided bogus or at least questionable Social Security numbers. A little research on my own, Google is a great thing, revealed that the primary contractor for UMass-Dartmoth is Century Drywall, Inc. This same company has 10 other projects in Rhode Island and Massechusets, including Logan International Airport, and Fidelity Headquarters in Smithfield, RI. How many employees at these other sites have provided bogus Social Security Numbers, and why has the employer not investigated or reported them to authorities?    

While Republican lawmakers in Massachusetts have called for a crackdown on companies that hire undocumented workers, the state has provided millions of dollars to contractors who employed those workers, records indicate.

A Globe analysis of nine recent public works projects — from dormitory construction at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth to the building of the new Middlesex County Jail — revealed that of 242 workers on weekly payroll lists, more than a third appeared to lack legitimate Social Security numbers.

On one of the payrolls reviewed, for masonry work on the UMass dormitory project, nearly two-thirds of the contractor's 87 workers had bogus or questionable Social Security numbers.

Hat tip to Wizbang.  Specific projects list  example of Social Security numbes stolen and used here Full Story Here 

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