Meg Whitman knowingly employed illegal immigrant as maid, Gloria Allred charges
 

Meg Whitman knowingly employed illegal immigrant as maid, Gloria Allred charges
A former housekeeper for Meg Whitman claims the Republican governor candidate knew she was an illegal immigrant but continued to employ her, according to her attorney Gloria Allred.
Allred said Whitman caused the worker to "feel exploited, disrespected, humiliated, and emotionally and financially abused." The worker alleges Whitman knew she was here illegally but did not act on it until she decided to run for governor last year.
Whitman attorney Tom Hiltachk told reporters Wednesday: "This person was initially hired by Meg Whitman in November 2000. She filled out standard [Internal Revenue Service] forms and Department of Justice forms and presented her Social Security card and California driver's license. She filled out immigration forms that stated under penalty of perjury that she was a lawful resident."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...id-claims.html

This is beginning to look like a big scam. This employee of hers is quite obviously a liar. She tendered fraudulent documents to obtain employment, and kept up the facade for years. this seems to me to be BS about Whitman abusing her, and there seems to be no proof of that at all.
I'm not pro-whitman or anything, but I'm quite fed up with illegals claiming victimhood after having willingly perjured and forged in addition to living here illegally. Right now, I think it should be our position that we protect the American first, and that is whitman. If it turns out she had some knowledge, then we deal with that as we would anyone else that hired a single ineligible worker. But in the meantime, the illegal who forged and perjured seems to be self admitted at this point, and should be on her way to detention before breakfast.

The illegal was weeping and wailing about how badly she was treated. As much as I hate Whitman, this illegal is really laying it on too thick.

I agree. This smells of a conveniently concocted and slightly premature "October Surprise."

Besides, Juanita The Illegal Maid is not what should upset Californians about Whitman: http://derailamnestydotcom.blogspot....not-issue.html

There is some sort of philosophical moral to this story. That border hopper was getting $23 an hour. Tell me to my face that an American wouldn't have gladly taken the job with that compensation (w/ or w/o care mileage fees).

See folks? Nothing good comes from treating illegal aliens well.

There are two things that bothers me about this story. I'd like to believe that Whitman's been set up here, but she claims that the illegal maid voluntarily came to her and told her she was illegal in order not to be a political liability in Whitman's run for governor. What? I'm sorry, but I find it more credible that Whitman really did get the letters from the Social Security Administration and chose to ignore them until she decided to run for governor, at which time she decided she had damn well better fire the maid since it was bound to come out that she was illegal. The other thing is how it was known by anyone other than Whitman that she got the letters from the SSA.

Getting a no-match letter does not mean you get to fire the employee without being liable for damages under employment laws. Believe it or not, an employer is pretty much required to take the documentation that an employee provides as factual proof until something is returned from the state or feds stating otherwise. So this lying illegal could have been outed by the no-match letter, and then returned with yet another fraudulent SSN, and meg would be beholden to accept it until that one was disproven. That system was a ridiculous as any other federal program, and you have a willing participant in the fraud right in the federal government.
I'm not sayin' meg is in the clear here, but the first thing we have to default to is that our system is conducive to illegals, and second that we have lying, scamming illegals heavily vested in it. Our first concern should be to deport the liar of a foreigner, second we need to beat down the system that wasn't knocking on megs door after they supposedly knew where she was, how long she was there, and what she was doing. Meg wouldn't have stood a snowball's chance in hell of hiring an illegal, let alone keeping one had the feds and the state not been voluntarily helping the illegal work, stay here, or at least shirking their jobs in enforcing the law.
Let's remember what our goals are, and who our protected class is. California born Americans.

I added this list part before your reply, and that is how does anyone know that Whitman got those letters from the SSA? This casts doubt on Gloria Allred's position as well. Of course there's no question that the illegal maid should be deported, it's a question of what Whitman knew and when she knew it.