Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

January 18, 2008

Mel Kay of California's Golden State Fence Company was threatened with a prison term for employing illegal immigrants. That term may have been spent inside a prison fence his company erected. That's just one of several ironies in this case.

During his decades in the fence construction business, Kay has build barricades for many government installations such as military bases and a Border Patrol station. His company's largest employer was the U.S. Navy. And Kay's company even built a mile-long stretch of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Kay has relied extensively on illegal labor since 1984; this fact was known to the government agencies that contracted his services. Yet while Kay and several of his managers face criminal prosecution, none of the federal officials responsible for giving Kay those contracts has been indicted or sanctioned in any way.

So Kay served six months in home confinement, and the bureaucrats he worked with got pay raises.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.