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  <body>&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529761,00.html"&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529761,00.html&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2009-07-01-american-apparel_N.htm?csp=34"&gt;http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2009-07-01-american-apparel_N.htm?csp=34&lt;/a&gt;</body>
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  <title>AA under investigation for hiring illegal workers</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-11-22T03:59:34-05:00</updated-at>
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      <body>&lt;img src="http://mvn.com/cavalierattitude/simpsons_nelson_haha2.gif" /&gt;</body>
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      <body>Its called "Made IN America" not "Made BY Americans" for a reason!</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Matt Rupp said:&lt;/cite&gt; Its called "Made IN America" not "Made BY Americans" for a reason!&lt;/blockquote&gt;

+1</body>
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      <body>naughty, naughty</body>
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      <body>they made it pretty obvious
&lt;img src="http://i.americanapparel.net/storefront/images/detail/serve.asp?media=2001LA_White.jpg" /&gt;

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      <body>So is it that they're hiring illegal immigrants or paying illegal immigrants low wages? If it's only the former I don't really give a shit</body>
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      <body>i dont know how anyone can be surprised this is happening. I went to there wherehouse and it was all mexicans and most of them didnt speak any english.
AA is kinda the American version of a sweatshop
lol</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Time Without the E said:&lt;/cite&gt; i dont know how anyone can be surprised this is happening. I went to there wherehouse and it was all mexicans and most of them didnt speak any english.
AA is kinda the American version of a sweatshop
lol&lt;/blockquote&gt;

you went to &lt;b&gt;their where&lt;/b&gt;house, thats crazyyy. &lt;b&gt;ware&lt;/b&gt; is &lt;b&gt;there&lt;/b&gt; wherehouse again? LA, right?</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;andrE w. said:&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Time Without the E said:&lt;/cite&gt; i dont know how anyone can be surprised this is happening. I went to there wherehouse and it was all mexicans and most of them didnt speak any english.
AA is kinda the American version of a sweatshop
lol&lt;/blockquote&gt;

you went to &lt;b&gt;their where&lt;/b&gt;house, thats crazyyy. &lt;b&gt;ware&lt;/b&gt; is &lt;b&gt;there&lt;/b&gt; wherehouse again? LA, right?&lt;/blockquote&gt;


yeah, it's in LA.


such great deals.


...but the mexicans there are as illegal as can be. 

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      <body>because $30 blank tees aren't profitable enough...</body>
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      <body>Illegal workers or not, at least American Apparel provides humane working conditions and an above minimal wage for it's warehouse staff.</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;andrE w. said:&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Time Without the E said:&lt;/cite&gt; i dont know how anyone can be surprised this is happening. I went to there wherehouse and it was all mexicans and most of them didnt speak any english.
AA is kinda the American version of a sweatshop
lol&lt;/blockquote&gt;

you went to &lt;b&gt;their where&lt;/b&gt;house, thats crazyyy. &lt;b&gt;ware&lt;/b&gt; is &lt;b&gt;there&lt;/b&gt; wherehouse again? LA, right?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Oh sorry was that an attempt for you to be funny and smart at the same time? 
congrats!</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;william@thisisprestigious.org said:&lt;/cite&gt; Illegal workers or not, at least American Apparel provides humane working conditions and an above minimal wage for it's warehouse staff.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

+1</body>
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      <body>Pfft who cares? I use Bulgarians for all my ShirtFight labor! :)</body>
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      <body>It better not raise the prices any</body>
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      <body>Anyone else watch Lou Dobbs because he is a jackass?</body>
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      <body>...is there really a big company out there that doesnt hire illegal workers?</body>
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      <body>I Agree "Made In America" doesn't mean "Made by Americans!".  That might be a new tee tag!  Large companies are concerned about making more money every year.  If your profits aren't going up then your not growing.  I'm not surprised at all!  But no hate here either, let's keep as much money being spent here in the USA as possible, even though if they are hiring illegal mexican labor they send our dollars back to mexico!  That's is mexico's #1 income the US Dollars being sent back by mexicans working here.    </body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;jpolo said:&lt;/cite&gt; I Agree "Made In America" doesn't mean "Made by Americans!".  That might be a new tee tag!  Large companies are concerned about making more money every year.  If your profits aren't going up then your not growing.  I'm not surprised at all!  But no hate here either, let's keep as much money being spent here in the USA as possible, even though if they are hiring illegal mexican labor they send our dollars back to mexico!  That's is mexico's #1 income the US Dollars being sent back by mexicans working here.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

If you use that as a tag, I better get credit! That is all me.</body>
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      <body>Ha!  Ha! everybody should use it!  Let's colab Fam! </body>
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