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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

The Missouri attorney general’s office is reviewing a report of illegal immigrant workers and their use of more than 30 bogus Social Security numbers at an O’Fallon construction site, a city official said Tuesday.

City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. is pressing the state and the St. Charles County prosecutor to bring charges against Hennessey Development Inc. of Clayton, the lead contractor on the Southernside apartment complex. The project, aimed at providing affordable housing, is supported by millions in tax credits and tax-exempt bonds.

“These workers are here because unscrupulous people take advantage of them and pay them a substandard wage,” Lowery said.

Lowery’s father, Robert Lowery, Sr., former Police Chief of Florissant and currently Mayor of Florissant, was the cretin that came out against conceal-carry, yet we found out that his wife was regularly packing heat, probably at his behest, even before CCW ultimately became law in Missouri. What happened was that, while he was still Police Chief in Florissant, him and his wife were shopping in downtown St. Louis, and the wife had her purse stolen from her. There was a gun inside the purse, and later, the gun was found circulating around gangland St. Louis City. Old Man Lowery’s story was that he had his wife watch his gun while he tried something on (even as that was technically illegal; he was able to carry himself even outside of Florissant because he was a member of the Major Case Squad at the time, but not his wife), but the gun that was retrieved was a gun that is designed for a woman’s hands and hand strength, and marketed to women gun buyers.

Therefore, it is a pleasant surprise that his son is doing something wise.

Developer Pete Hennessey adamantly denies the claims, triggered by complaints by the Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity.

“Everyone is documented at the site,” he said. “If they’re fake, that’s between the employees and the federal government. It’s basically an anti-Mexican stance that the carpenters union is taking, and it’s totally backed by the city.”

This is another example of business owners and managers embracing the “diversity” agenda simply because it’s good for their pocketbook. And nobody is alleging that his (allegedly) illegal alien workers are undocumented; the allegation is that their documents are fake.

And even if this is being done entirely at the behest of the carpenters’ union, I say good for them. Most unions these days are either silent on the issue, or on the wrong side of the issue. They’re the ideal organization to be making a fuss. Even beyond that, it doesn’t make document forgery and fraud any less a crime.

Mayor Donna Morrow said O’Fallon is an unfortunate example of what she believes is happening nationally. Developers and investors are awarded competitive state and federal subsidies partly based on low construction bids made possible by illegal labor, she said.

“There seems to be a pipeline of these illegals that are finding their way to these job sites,” she said. “Now if they’re also using identity theft — gosh — that’s also a multimillion-dollar-a-year drain on our economy.”

Yes, there is a “pipeline.” It’s called inadequate border protection. Rich Boy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is dragging his heels on the border wall, because he didn’t get his way with the soft amnesty bill, the U.S. Border Patrol has been neutered by the Johnny Suttonfongs of the world and the craze for diversity, not to mention China/Mexico quislings, and the U.S. Armed Forces is too busy guarding other country’s borders on the other side of the world.

Under a law passed last year, O’Fallon requires contractors on publicly supported construction sites to provide employment records to confirm whether their workers are legal.

O’Fallon officials chose not to use the city Police Department for fear it would be accused of racially profiling the workers, some of whom are Hispanic, Lowery said.

O’Fallon only exists in the form that it does, i.e. subdivisons instead of soybean fields, because of black crime in St. Louis City and County. Nobody in O’Fallon has any business engaging in this kind of racial pandering. Besides, if not the cops, who is expected to enforce this law? And wouldn’t any enforcement of any such law have the disparate impact of affecting (i.e. profiling) Hispanics? It’s not like there are several million Austrians sneaking across the southern border every year.

The 220-unit Southernside complex is partly funded by more than $13 million in state and federal tax credits over 10 years, administered by the Missouri Housing Development Commission. It is also receiving $13.5 million in tax-exempt bonds approved by the St. Charles County Industrial Development Authority.

Last year, the state commission awarded $22 million in state and federal tax credits to create 39 affordable-housing developments around the state.

So illegal aliens are involved in the construction of housing in O’Fallon which will most likely house blacks and Hispanics, meaning that it won’t be long that the whites will be saying, “feet don’t fail me now” (again) as they flee further west.