Prison for last 4 ex-Swift workers from immigration raid

The Associated Press ^ | Jun. 21, 2007 | The Associated Press

[Dubya]

AMARILLO, Texas -- Prison awaits the last four now-ex-workers of a Swift meatpacking plant in Cactus targeted in an illegal immigration bust.

A federal judge in Amarillo today sentenced the final defendants of the 53 people arrested in the December 12th raid.

Each pleaded guilty to charges related to false identification.

Prosecutors say Jesus Gutierrez-Ramos, Manuel Castro-Pablo and Cristino Pablo-Alonzo pleaded guilty to using fraudulently obtained identity documents.

Each must serve eight months in prison.

Domingo Velasquez-Gutierrez pleaded guilty to the same charge and received a six-month prison term.

No charges were filed against Colorado-based Swift.

[Dubya]

No charges were filed against Colorado-based Swift.

[cardinal4]

No charges were filed against Colorado-based Swift.

Must be big political contributors..

[cripplecreek]

Today I read about some 200 illegals working in a chicken processing plant in SC. At last count 130 of them were found to be carrying TB.

[cinives]

Don’t imprison them, deport them !!!!!!!

[DesScorp]

“Must be big political contributors..”

It’s the Agriculture/Meatpacking and Construction industries that are weilding the biggest influence over the Senate with the Amnesty bill. They’re the chief users of cheap menial labor. The software industry is pushing from the other end, wanting an endless, fat pipe of foreign H-1B workers so they don’t have to hire Americans. Workers are getting screwed from both ends of the spectrum.

[cripplecreek]

I know that at least two of the top GOP presidential hopefulls have gone on record as voting against stiffer penalties for companies that hire illegals.

[Wolverine]

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[c-b 1]

Don’t imprison them, deport them !!!!!!!

They must be imprisoned, then deported, deportation is not a deterrant to them, they will be right back. If they are deported after imprisonment they have experienced a deterant.

[DesScorp]

Who are they?

[cripplecreek]

I'm assuming John McCain and Fred Thompson is the other.

Sen. Thompson, in committee consideration of S.1664 protected businesses from having to pay higher fines when they are caught hiring illegal aliens. Under the idea that current fines were not enough of a deterrent against businesses cutting their labor costs by hiring illegal aliens, the Senate immigration subcommittee approved higher fines. Various study commissions have found that the willingness of U.S. businesses to hire illegal aliens is the No. 1 incentive for foreign workers to become illegal aliens here. But Sen. Thompson voted with a 10-8 majority in the Judiciary Committee to remove the higher fines from the 1996 legislation against illegal immigration.

[Tennessee Nana]

No charges were filed against Colorado-based Swift.

who already have employed other illegal aliens to take the place of the imprisoned ones...

And life goes on....