- 08 Aug 2020 16:04
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The usual pattern for ICE raids on businesses employing undocumented aliens is that the aliens get shipped home while the businessmen get a slap on the wrist, if that. After all, it’s easier to prove that someone is in the country illegally than that their employer knew that, and you don’t want to shake up the economy too badly, right? Who cares about the price paid by legal low-income residents? Perhaps ... just perhaps ... that isn’t the case this time:
Feds charge four execs in connection to immigration raids at Mississippi poultry plants
Feds charge four execs in connection to immigration raids at Mississippi poultry plants
- Federal authorities announced charges Thursday against four executives they said were responsible for hiring hundreds of illegal immigrants at poultry processing plants in Mississippi.
Last year’s raids on the plants drew national headlines with more than 600 illegal immigrants nabbed — and officials at the time had promised that they were building a case against company higher-ups who oversaw using the illegal labor.
The managers were charged with lying to federal officers, facilitating false documents and, most strikingly, harboring illegal immigrants.
“Companies who intentionally or knowingly base their business model on an illegal workforce deprive law-abiding citizens and lawful immigrants of employment opportunities, which are especially critical as our economy looks to recover from the challenges faced by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Matthew T. Albence, chief at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Aug. 7, 2019, raids on seven poultry plants was the largest immigration enforcement action in history.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke