Documents: Plant owners 'willfully' used ineligible workers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Jeff Amy, Associated Press Updated 12:09 am CDT, Saturday, August 10, 2019

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six of seven Mississippi chicken processing plants raided Wednesday were "willfully and unlawfully" employing people who lacked authorization to work in the United States, including workers wearing electronic monitoring bracelets at work for previous immigration violations, according to unsealed court documents.

Federal investigators behind the biggest immigration raid in a decade relied on confidential informants inside the plants in addition to data from the monitoring bracelets to help make their case, according to the documents.

The sworn statements supported the search warrants that led a judge to authorize Wednesday's raids, and aren't official charges, but give the first detailed look at the evidence involved in what Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have described as a yearlong investigation.

Officials arrested 680 people during Wednesday's operation . Three Democratic congressmen on Friday demanded that the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice produce information. They want to know the cost of the raids, whether employers face criminal charges, whether any U.S. citizens were detained, how many parents were separated from children and whether any still remain separated.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Immigration-raids-to-have-long-term-effects-on-14292221.php

[global1]

1. One Other Question - Were Any Of The Employers ....

Trump donors? Or were all the employers Dems?

[handmade34]

5. ...

Trump companies "'willfully' used ineligible workers" the questions go very deep...?????

[global1]

8. Think Extortion.....

Maybe if I become a Trump donor my company won't get raided by ICE.

This is just a thought. That's why I asked the question. Perhaps a little probing or investigative journalism is needed here.

Just sayin!!!!!

[procon]

2. LOCK THEM UP!

arrest the ownérs, the managers and supervisors, the HR dept, the bird of directors, the payroll office and the accountants.

They are the primary lawbreakers. Why do we allow this two teir justice system where the law only goes after the poor and POC, while the wealthy business owners don't even miss their golf date?

[LittleGirl]

13. That's always

my defense of immigrants that work. And the hypocrite answers with, they use fake documents. Really? Everyone of them?

No, they need to arrest the employers that hire them. When I lived in AZ they would arrest the owners or employees but that was before E-verify.

[hunter]

15. These corporations rarely employ the workers directly.

Instead they use labor contractors who conveniently disappear.

It's a cost of doing business for corporations who do this.

At the first hint workers are beginning to organize and resist unsafe working conditions and low wages the entire lot of them are disposed of and replaced, with the assistance of agencies like ICE.

[diane in sf]

3. The deportations are obviously just political theater for fox watching goobers.

[Sherman A1]

4. In a perfect world

These companies and their executives would come under serious scrutiny and investigation. Their lives would be filled with auditors and lawyers.

That said we all know it is far from a perfect world.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. 680 new jobs and no Americans want them

I just don't know what happens when you remove even 1% of the lowest hourly workers from the workforce. These are the people that do the work, produce the value. I suppose owners have to pay more to hire new workers. I'm wondering if INFLATION will be the most likely and pernicious result of these Trumpian policies.

[Bayard]

12. Exactly

These folks are definitely not taking jobs away from Americans. You do not see citizens working for minimum wage with no benefits, under constant fear of deportation under this administration.

When I lived in Calif., and would drive down the mountain toward Fresno, you would see school buses unloading orchard workers for the day. You'd see them in the hot sun, busting their asses. Then on Fridays, you'd see them all lined up at the money wiring places, sending their paychecks back home. I wouldn't surmise that all these folks were undocumented, but I believe the agricultural economy of Calif. would collapse without them.

[LittleGirl]

14. Yup, n/t.

[tblue37]

18. Everyone should see the movie "A Day without Mexicans." nt

[oldsoftie]

7. ARREST THEM. Make an example of them if you want to actually impact illegal hiring.

[Mike_DuBois]

9. Void biz license and arrest owners/managers

Do that enough times and we'll see some actual results.

[DaDeacon]

10. In other news...

Dogs bark and the sun shines... Undocumented workers are practically indentured servants.

[Ilsa]

11. Just like the trumps willfully use ineligible workers. nt

[tclambert]

16. Yeah, yeah, what's the fine? Like $250?

If it's cheaper to break the law, why should a good business executive obey the law?

[melm00se]

17. Penalties

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/penalties-for-employers-hiring-illegal-immigrants.html