Indictments of workers mount after the Mississippi immigration raids, but no employers have been cha

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Indictments of workers mount after the Mississippi immigration raids, but no employers have been charged

By Ray Sanchez, CNN
Updated 0013 GMT (0813 HKT) August 22, 2019

(CNN) — As federal indictments stack up against dozens of undocumented immigrants rounded up in workplace raids in Mississippi, no charges have been filed against employers who immigration officials believe knowingly hired them, according to online court documents.

Two of the raided chicken processing plants say they followed local and federal law and participated in E-Verify. Officials at two other plants did not respond to a request for comment.

Affidavits made public after the historic August 7 raids showed federal agents suspected the food processing plants unlawfully hired undocumented workers. But Mike Hurst, the US attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, declined to comment on whether employers will be charged, citing the ongoing investigation.

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Two weeks later, nearly 40 workers have been indicted on charges ranging from illegal re-entry to misuse of social security numbers, according to court documents.

Still, no charges have been brought against companies or managers in what experts acknowledge can be time-consuming cases.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/21/us/mississippi-ice-raids-employers/index.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. There are two different areas of law involved. Throwing out immigrants is...

too easy, and indicting employers is too hard.

Do you indict the company or the individual who did the hiring? Whose responsibility is it to check legal work status? What if a staffing agency is the actual employer? How could we use such things as child labor laws as examples or precedents?

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2. My theory...

The employers self reported and cooperated with the feds...and made a deal!