Wal-Mart Raids by U.S. Aimed at Illegal Immigrants

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Published: October 24, 2003

Federal agents raided 60 Wal-Mart stores across the nation yesterday and said they arrested more than 250 illegal immigrants who worked as janitors for outside contractors used by Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer.

As part of the 21-state raid, the largest immigration crackdown in years, federal agents also searched the office of an executive at Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., and removed boxes of documents, company and government officials said. Advertisement

Full story here at the New York Times.

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