Feature Story
December 12, 2001

 Los Angeles Daily News
TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

"Our roads are jammed with unlicensed motorists driving uninsured cars. Our public health, education and other services are overburdened with needy people whose needs are so great we can't afford to meet them. Our, poorest workers find their chances at employment compromised by competition willing to work below the minimum wage. Sweatshops and other illegal working conditions are tolerated as if we lived in a Third World country." - DAILY NEWS
EDITORIAL - December 12, 2001
Underground bus line
   "Of course Golden State Transportation, which has been charged with the largest human smuggling racket of its kind, was based in Los Angeles.
   Where else?
   Where else but in L.A. could hundreds of immigrants be bused around like some kind of commodity every day for five years without being noticed?
   "Where else but in L.A. would civil authorities -- the police, the tax collectors, the regulators -- never spot a sham of a corporation, a faux travel company that's actually a West Coast immigrant distribution network?
Los Angeles is the perfect place to stage this sort of an operation, thanks to its combination of unresponsive government agencies and thoughtless immigration policies."
 


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