[Doug64]

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

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.

[Pants-of-dog]

Is there an decent source that can confirm this?

[Doug64]

Is there an decent source that can confirm this?

If you aren’t willing to trust real journalists, I’m sure you can find some Leftist cheerleaders that have at least mentioned it in passing. You might have to search hard, though, they’re in full “defeat Trump at all costs” mode and that’ll include ignoring as best they can anything that makes him look good.

[Pants-of-dog]

The source is questionable and has been caught lying to support Trump.

Why should I believe it?

Edit: even the quoted text contradicts itself: the headline reads that executives were charged, while the actual text says that managers were charged.

Which one was it?

[Doug64]

@Pants-of-dog Like I said elsewhere, you’ve gotten to the point that you can’t recognize a MSM source that still dependably practices real journalism, while ignoring the clear faults and boosterism of the MSM(D). So why do you think that managers can’t be executives? Beyond that nonsensical quibble, do you have anything real to say about what was actually reported?

[Pants-of-dog]

Managers and executives are not the same thing.

Real news stories point out that managers are being charged but all the executives are getting away with it.

[Patrickov]

Why would the term "alien" be used here?

I almost thought four got charged employing extraterrestrial beings, which would be downright crazy.

[Doug64]

Why would the term "alien" be used here?

Relevant definition of alien: "a resident of one country who was born in or owes allegiance to another country and has not acquired citizenship by naturalization in the country of residence (distinguished from citizen)." Aliens come in three categories--immigrants (those granted permanent residency status, likely soon to be citizens), nonimmigrants (those passing through, whether students, temporary workers, tourists, those visiting on business, etc.), and undocumented aliens (those in the country illegally).

[Pants-of-dog]

Besides, it helps support the US notion that Latinos are not quite human.

More on topic, it is always the workers that get punished and never the executives.

[Potemkin]

Why would the term "alien" be used here?

I almost thought four got charged employing extraterrestrial beings, which would be downright crazy.

In English, the word 'alien' simply meant anyone from a foreign country. With the rise of science-fiction in the early 20th century, however, the word has changed its meaning, and is now primarily used to refer to specifically extra-terrestrial aliens. However, its original meaning is still valid, and is often used in official reports or journalism.

[annatar1914]

Besides, it helps support the US notion that Latinos are not quite human.

More on topic, it is always the workers that get punished and never the executives.

So, the ''US'' believes that Latinos aren't human, everybody in the US? Every white anglo person?

Just curious.