Seattle-area tech company raided by immigration enforcement
Think it'll just be farmers and restaurants which are raided? Think again.
Seattle-area cloud company Sysgain on Tuesday was reportedly the subject of an immigration raid — something the official allegedly called a "routine inspection."
The immigration official who was at the scene at the company's Redmond office allegedly made everyone put their cell phones away, told them they weren't allowed to record anything, demanded records and documentation, and questioned why some of the cubicles were empty, according to a Facebook post from someone familiar with the matter.
The official reportedly interrogated the CEO for more than an hour and are demanding the company produce additional documentation, according to that same post. Sysgain is a Microsoft cloud administration partner company that helps companies transition their operations to the cloud.
It’s unclear whether the inspection was completed by an Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, who target undocumented immigrants and those with deportation orders, or the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which typically tracks compliance for “high tech” H-1B visa programs.
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Davis Wright Tremaine immigration lawyer Chris Helm expects both types of immigration raids will become more common under President Donald Trump's administration.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, in a pair of memos signed Tuesday, instructed the agency to begin hiring 10,000 additional ICE agents and 5,000 additional Border Patrol officers.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Helm said.
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Farms are already hurting, no one to pick the crops. Food prices to rise. Health care going away.....
And what really burns my ass DT is deporting, then he and his family are whining that they need special visas to IMPORT WORKERS TO PICK THEIR GRAPES!!!! Sorry for yelling, I am so pissed. 
And won't name this as such, that is what it is.
And it's just as evil as it ever was and has nothing to do with security or job creation. Just the opposite. At the same time that they have locked down federal jobs, jobs which provide needed services across the nation and many of which support hiring veterans in particular through the states.
And they are or will be slashing services across education, health care, child care, housing, basic food, etc. which ACTUALLY provide the most security in people's daily lives.
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