| According to "El Universal" a Mexico City daily, Wal-Mart will pay between $10 and $11 million for US authorities to seal an investigation of their hiring of undocumented workers which resulted in the arrests of 250 immigrants working for Wal Mart. According to Gilberto García, an attorney representing a group of the arrested immigrants, Wal-Mart has agreed to pay for the investigation, but will not be fined or sanctioned for breach of labor regulations and hiring undocumenteds without work permits. Mr. Garcia represents about 80 immigrants, half of them are hispanic, the rest mainly Czechs, who last October were apprehended in INS raids on Wal Mart stores across 21 states. Most of the undocumenteds were able to remain in the US after agreeing to cooperate with the authorities in the investigation, but their work permits will expire at the end of April or early in May, when they could be deported. |