*** VDOT Illegal Alien Scandal ***

From today’s WashPo:

“They’re talking about this [the Prince William County anti-illegal alien resolution] in Jefferson County, in Clarke, all the way to West Virginia,” Adrian Escobar said in Spanish, sipping from a Big Gulp cup outside a pupusa kiosk on Route 1. He and his brother Antonio dashed across the border from Mexico nearly 15 years ago and have been in the United States illegally since. They live in Winchester and make $17 an hour as flagmen for a Virginia Department of Transportation subcontractor.

The Escobar brothers shrugged at all the fretting they’d been hearing from other Hispanics last week, including workers who commute to Prince William to do its grunt work. “Who else is going to pave the roads here?” Adrian asked, cracking up with laughter. “An American? Ha!”

Antonio said he wasn’t fazed. “If you’re afraid, they’ll just intimidate you more,” he said. Besides, he added, the brothers have a plan in case Prince William police and immigration officials send them home for a “free vacation” to their father’s farm in Guanajuato.

“We’ll be right back here in a month,” Antonio said.

So, VDOT has subcontractors who hire illegal aliens.  Will VDOT take seek to determine which subcontractor this is?  It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out given the illegal alien has given his name, that of his brother and the location that they are currently working.  If they bother to find out which subcontractor is doing this, will they take steps to sanction them?  Will they bar the subcontractor from state work?  Will they strip their license to do business in Virginia?

Illegal immigration will stop when the incentive to break the law dries up.  The Commonwealth of Virginia MUST do its part and sanction any subcontractor that is this lax.

One must also wonder whether Immigration & Customs Enforcement will follow up on this Page A1 story from the WashPo where there is ample information on a self-confessed illegal alien.