Jacksonville courthouse project rife with illegal worker documents
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 10:02AM Commentary by Kay B. Day
Lone gull at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (by Kay B. Day)If you think about it, there’s rich irony in more than a quarter of workers at the county courthouse allegedly filing false identification documents. The county courthouse in Jacksonville—the city that is, according to local lore, the largest in land mass in the mainland United States—has apparently become a hotbed for illegal workers.
There’s additional irony when official data is considered. The U.S. Dept. of Labor noted a 10.7 percent unemployment rate for Jacksonville as of September, 2009.
Construction jobs are jobs American citizens and legal guest workers would definitely like to have.
The company overseeing the project, Turner Construction, has done business in the U.S. for more than a century and has locations in more than a dozen states.
