Dr. Oz Is Shareholder In Company Busted For Hiring Undocumented Immigrants

A new report has revealed that Dr. Oz is a shareholder in a company that had to pay one of the largest fines in ICE history after they were found to be hiring undocumented workers. The company, Asplundh Tree Expert Company, was founded by the grandparents of Oz's wife, and both he and his wife (along with 200 other family members) are passive shareholders in the group. This news was revealed after Oz promised to crack down on illegal immigration, and Farron Cousins explains why companies like Asplundh make that impossible.

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Dr. MEIT Oz recently took to Twitter to announce that he was gonna take a firm stance against illegal immigration here in the United States saying, quote, as your United States Senator, I will fight to end illegal immigration and soft on crime policies that release dangerous undocumented criminals into sanctuary cities. Tough talking point, right? I mean, big, big, tough Dr. Oz out there taking on illegal immigrants. Well, I think what Oz didn't quite count on was people looking at his own past, because as it turns out his wife, her grandparents, maternal grandparents, started a company that I'm sure everybody's heard of. If not, I'm sure you've seen the trucks driving around your town at one time or another called the ASPL tree expert company. And it turns out that just a couple years ago, this company again started by Oz's wife's grandparents, for which, by the way, Oz and his wife are shareholders of the company. They had to pay tens of millions of dollars.

After a six year investigation determined that they were routinely hiring and rehiring undocumented immigrants here in the United States. So Mr. Tough on immigration, Dr. Oz, while he was not implicated in the scheme, let's be clear about that. And neither he, nor his wife were hiring undocumented workers. They sure as hell we're profiting from it, right? Because that's always the case. That's the way these things always go. You may not have had a say in how the company operates. You may not have been active. You're your passive shareholder. They claim, you know, we've no involvement in the company. We just take their money cuz we love money. Give it back, give it back. Every penny, every bit of it. If you wanna put your money, literally where your mouth is, you need to give back all that money you got from a company that was hiring undocumented immigrants.

If you wanna be tough on immigration, start with your own bank account, you frigging hypocrite, but you won't do that. And you and your Republican party will never actually follow through on any of your threats to reign in undocumented immigrants here in the United States because your corporate masters won't let you folks, have you ever wondered why it is that we get these same talking points from Republicans? I mean literally my whole life, my entire life, we have been hearing the talking points from the Republican party, going all the way back to Reagan, who was president. When I was born talking about, we gotta do something about the illegal immigrants and then nothing ever gets done. I mean, you would think that at some point in the last 40, some odd years, some Republican, I mean pretty much all of them at one point or

Another had majorities in the house and said it too. But none of them ever really did anything. And do you know why that is? Because the corporations that fund these politicians, both, I be honest on the left and right, uh, profit heavily off of undocumented labor. They profit heavily off of migrant labor, legal, migrant labor. But if we crack down on immigration, we're cutting off a vital supply of workers that these corporations exploit constantly because these people are easy to exploit, right? They're here illegally. So they can't complain about working conditions. What are they gonna file an OSHA complaint? well, if they do they're back across the border, that's why these corporations love them. They can use them and abuse them. And if they give them any lip, they ship 'em right back and they just replace 'em with the next man up. Right. That's why nothing will ever get done about the immigration issue because corporations rely on these illegal immigrants to come in here so they can exploit them and send the profits off to people like Dr. Oz.