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Government Protects You Against Wal-Mart’s Dangerous Clean-up Crews

Government Protects You Against Wal-Mart’s Dangerous Clean-up Crews

300 Alleged Illegal Workers Arrested at 60 Wal-Marts (USA Today):  Federal officials arrested what they said were more than 300 illegal workers at 60 Wal-Mart stores across the country early Thursday morning and searched the office of one of the retail chain’s corporate executives.

Comment: The labor unions can’t entirely unhappy with this, but how does it help anyone else to arrest working folks this way? These workers may be “illegal” by the government’s definition but, by libertarian standards, they are working and paying their own way, and here on invitation (thus satisfying the  Hoppe standard).  

 

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