Do As We Say …
Boston’s border control chief busted … for hiring illegals! Howie puts it best:
This town really does need an enema.
How corrupt has Boston become when we now have illegal alien maids from Brazil wearing wires against six-figure federal immigration officials?
Come on down, Lorraine Henderson … She’s only been here in Boston since December 2003 but it’s safe to say she’s “gone native.”
Boston Herald with the news:
Lorraine Henderson, who supervised 220 employees as the Customs and Border Protection agency’s Boston area port director since 2003, faces up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine if convicted of harboring an illegal alien.
She was taped by the feds in September warning her wired cleaning woman to be “careful” not to get detected by immigration officials when trying to obtain documents for her newborn, according to an affidavit.
“You have to be careful ’cause they will deport you,” Henderson allegedly advised her housekeeper. Prosecutors say Henderson ignored repeated agency memos warning staff not to hire illegal domestic help. Her housekeeper cooperated with feds in September, wearing a wiretap while working in Henderson’s Salem home.
A grim-faced Henderson, 50, who was arrested at home early yesterday morning, declined to speak to reporters when leaving U.S. District Court after being released on an unsecured $25,000 bond after her arraignment. She was forced to surrender her gun, badge and passport and is due back in court Dec. 22. Henderson was placed on paid administrative leave from her $132,446-a-year job.
The 33-year veteran customs agent is accused of hiring the housekeeper at least as far back as 2004, paying her about $80 cash to clean her two-bedroom, 2 -bath condo on Brittania Circle twice a month.
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Henderson’s undoing came after she recommended her housekeeper to a fellow customs agent who shared a ride with her to their Boston office in 2004. The officer asked her for help in finding a housekeeper and Henderson told her about her maid, whom she described as “very attractive, trustworthy and thorough,” according to the affidavit.
The officer later hired the same Brazilian worker but then terminated her in December 2005 after grilling her about her residency and learning that she paid a “coyote” thousands of dollars to smuggle her from Mexico.
The officer twice discussed the worker’s illegal status with Henderson, and when Henderson didn’t fire the housekeeper, reported her to Customs officials. Federal agents launched a probe in March and later learned that Henderson paid two other illegals to clean her home while her longtime worker had a baby in 2007.
$132,446? Is good help really that hard to find? Clearly the high rate of pay isn’t keeping them honest. I bet we could find document-challenged Americans who could do what this woman was doing better and cheaper.* Meanwhile, more Howie:
It’s amazing how quickly these newcomers to our land assimilate. One moment, they’re paying a coyote to get them across the Mexican border. The next minute, they’re quittin’ the grinnin’ and droppin’ the linen to wear a wire against some dim-bulb American hack. I guess you can say the illegal was only wearing the wires Americans wouldn’t wear.
Full disclosure: This woman commanded the Customs agents who informed me somewhat dramatically ”We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” although we were already doing it the easy way, when they welcomed me home from Iraq in April 2003 with a two-hour interrogation, seizing my property and my company’s property, all of which they eventually returned in good order, with the exception of a painting of Saddam Hussein, which they informed me they were returning to the grateful Iraqi people. I have endeavored not to let this past annoyance influence my view of the agency’s current humiliating circumstances, which in no way should reflect on the fine work done by any other badge-wearing Joe Fridays that we are paying a lot more than I imagined to enforce our laws. In other rotten Boston fed news, we’re awaiting sentencing on John Connolly, the disgraced FBI agent already doing time for facilitating a murdering, child-molesting, drug-dealing mobster’s reign of terror, and recently convicted of murder in the second degree for passing along tips on who needed killing. Circumstances that really just make the charges against the CBP Boston chief look like petty hypocrisy.
* via Malkin, Mexican authorities crack down on illegals. What are they trying to do, make our people look bad? But it turns out it’s not the ones trying to enter los Estados Unidos that they’re cracking down on. Don’t be ridiculous. That’s a major Mexican income producer. They’re shipping back Cubans, who obviously don’t have enough cash for the bribes and coyote fees to just keep moving through. I’m thinking, with the kind of money we’re paying Henderson … maybe we could just bribe the federales to crack down on their side of the border, so we can lay off all the high-paid hacks on this side.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:58 am Comments (0) on Saturday, December 6, 2008
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