DHS head Chertoff hired illegal immigrants

Pardon my French but you have got to be shitting me:

The nation's top immigration cop unknowingly used a company that hired illegal immigrants to clean his home for about three years, starting in 2005.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hired the Maryland-based Consistent Cleaning Services to clean his home in the D.C. suburbs every few weeks for the past three years until an investigation conducted by one of his department's agencies discovered the company hired illegal workers.

Naturally, nobody wants to eat humble pie and take blame for the snafu; a Homeland Security spokesman claimed that it was the contractors fault for having undocumented immigrants work at the Chertoff residence. The head of the cleaning firm, meanwhile, has pled innocence and blamed the laborers who reportedly deceived him.

The above incident is indicative of the error-ridden status quo on immigration policy and serves as a damning indictment of delusional officials and politicos who pretend that all is well.

For the head of the agency which overlooks immigration in the U.S. to be caught up in such an affair is embarrassing though sadly not the first time he’s goofed.

How can one aspire for meaningful and fair immigration reform when such incompetence occurs? Hopefully this can change with a new administration though I’m increasingly more disillusioned with government doing anything serious on immigration.

How pathetic.

Image- Seattle Times
Sources- The Latin Americanist, washingtonpost.com, AP, CNN, Time