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San Diego – The owner of a company that once helped build a fence to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Mexican border was sentenced Wednesday to six months’ home confinement for hiring undocumented workers.
Mel Kay, founder, chairman and president of Golden State Fence Co., was sentenced with Michael McLaughlin, a company manager. Both previously pleaded guilty to felony charges of knowingly hiring illegal workers.
The men acknowledged hiring at least 10 illegal immigrants in 2004 and 2005. Federal authorities said they found no evidence that illegal immigrants were hired in the late 1990s while the company built 6,100 feet of the 14-mile fence in San Diego.
