It's very interesting that not one defendant in this case has an Hispanic name....
If these "temporary agencies" are acquiring false documents for these "workers", I could see that as a huge national security risk. Terrorist cells could be set up under the radar with false documentation/jobs.
I'm going to look for a thread that goes with this in a moment. I'll bump you back when I find it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597900/posts
Accused Alien Smuggling Kingpin and Financier Faces U.S. Prosecution
"Sister Ping" Brought to Justice After Eluding U.S. Officials For Ten Years
Washington, DC - The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced today that Chui Ping Cheng aka "Sister Ping," has been extradited from Hong Kong to the United States. Cheng, an accused human smuggler and financier, has unsuccessfully waged a three-year extradition battle to elude American prosecution.
Cheng has been a fugitive since her 1994 New York indictment, as well as a superseding indictment in 2000 from New York, for alien smuggling, kidnapping, hostage taking and money laundering. In April 2000, she was arrested in Hong Kong after an intensive five-year worldwide investigation by ICE and the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Preying on Human Cargo
By Michael Maiello and Susan Kitchens, Forbes, May 20, 2004
This detailed article looks at the "shadowy contractors" who hook up illegal immigrants and arrange to get them jobs with service companies that offer cheap labor to corporate America.
Specifically, this article discusses the case of Kenneth Clancy, who ran "Facilities Solutions," a janitorial contracting firm that allegedly employed Mexican illegal immigrants to clean Wal-Mart stores around the United States. It is estimated that Clancy's five cleaning operations generated revenues of $500,000 annually; a member of his cleaning crew mand $350 per week.
It also looks at Cheng Chui Ping, known as "Sister Ping," who smuggled thousands of Chinese into the United States. Ping, now in jail, used gangs such as the Chinese "Fuk Ching" or the Vietnamese "Born to Kill" to manage newly arrived illegal immigrants and collect smuggling fees usually paid by relatives. Most of the illegal immigrants then spent years at below-minimum-wage jobs such as dishwashers to reimburse their families. It is believed that Sister Ping earned more than $30 million over the 15 years she engaged in people smuggling.
Petr Pospisil, recruited people from his native Czech Republic, put them in low-paying jobs, and took as much as $2 per hour from every worker he placed in addition to charging them rent and uitlities for cramped living quarters he provided. Pospisil's profits are estimated to have been $100,000 per month.
You are right.
It seems to me if terrorists come here illegally all they have to do is contact one of these groups that support/hire/assist illegals and the group will do the rest for them. False documents and a job = pretty good cover, through little or no effort on the part of the terrorists.