100 Suspected Illegal Workers Arrested

[NaturalHigh]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Federal immigration agents raided a poultry plant Tuesday morning and arrested more than 100 workers who are believed to be illegal immigrants.

Most of those arrested at the George's processing plant in rural Butterfield were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, said Pete Baird, an agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations office in Kansas City

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[Donnachaidh]

1. Was the EMPLOYER arrested as well?

If not, this action was total bullshit.

[hatrack]

2. Beat me to it, and exactly right

When members of the Andreas family, or the heads of Cargill are led away in cuffs, then things will have changed.

Until such time, BFD.

[YOY]

3. If so he'll get a slap on the wrist they'll get deported and Pubs get new jackoff material

and of course the positions will be refilled by new illegal workers. Just a hunch...

[Donnachaidh]

5. once these folks were dragged off -- more were brought in the next day

That's how these employers do it.

[Vanje]

4. Employer must've forgotten to give to the RNC this year.

NT

[EFerrari]

16. Or it could have been pay day.

:mad:

[NaturalHigh]

6. If the law were actually enforced...

I think that the employers could actually face up to five years in prison. It would only take a handful of cases like that before we could actually see some progress made.

[Xmark]

13. Yes, employer should be punished as well

This is not in ANY way to give illegals a pat on the back; they shouldn't be here in the first place, period. However, the ones who knowingly hire them are also breaking critical laws and should in no way be given a pass.

[NaturalHigh]

15. Agreed...

The law needs to be enforced for illegals AND the employers.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Absolutely not. This story was on our local news last night; from their web site.

"No charges have been filed against George's, a regional poultry processing company based in northwest Arkansas."

http://www.4029tv.com/news/13370307/detail.html

[RB TexLa]

12. You do not know the employer committed a crime

If they were presented documents that appeared to be in order, and the withheld proper taxes, what crime do you want them charged with?

[pampango]

14. I guess employers have got to become better immigration officers.

I no idea how good fake SS cards and other documents look. If they are obviously bogus, or the employers help the immigrants obtain high quality fakes, then the employers should indeed be criminally liable.

If the documents are high quality fakes, it would be difficult to convict an employer any more than you could convict an employee at Dairy Queen for accepting a fake $20 bill.

[mrcheerful]

7. In the thumb of Michigan a dairy farm was raided twice this year for illegals

the illegals were arrested and both times the farm got no charges or fines for hiring illegals. After all it's not the farmers fault that he hired illegals, it was the illegals fault for being illegals.

[L. Coyote]

8. How many employers of illegal workers were arrested?

Only when the focus is on the employers illegaly hiring workers will this trend turn around.

If employers do not hire illegal workers, there are no illegal workers, period!

[Double T]

9. Those jobs at the chicken processing plant weren't good enough and desired........

by the thousands and thousands and thousands of unemployed American workers, so what other choice do these poor beleaguered greed mongering corporations have other than to hire these slave wage illegal alien workers.

[patrick404]

10. Our lack of enforcement created this problem

We need penalties for employers who circumvent our labor and tax laws.