Posted on 06/24/2013 10:51:50 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
The feds have charged nine owners of 7-Eleven franchises with hiring illegal immigrants to work long hours in their eastern Long Island stores and cheating them out of hourly wages under threat of deportation, officials said Monday. The probe is being expanded to examine 40 franchises nationwide, including 25 in New York City and Long Island.
The feds have charged nine owners of 7-Eleven franchises with hiring illegal immigrants to work long hours in their eastern Long Island stores and cheating them out of hourly wages under threat of deportation, officials said Monday.
Some employees worked 100 hours a week, but were paid for less than half that, or part of their wages was deducted to cover their rent in crowded boardinghouses owned by the defendants, where they were required to live.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch called the setup a "modern day plantation system" with the franchise owners as "overseers" of the exploited workers.
The probe is being expanded to examine 40 franchises nationwide, including 25 in New York City and Long Island, said James Hayes, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations.
Lynch said the greedy defendants perverted the American Dream by raking in millions of dollars off the backs of their fellow nationals from Pakistan.
The 7-Elevens "are part of the roadside scenery of America," Lynch said. "But inside the familiar red, green and orange façade, beside the Slurpees and hot dogs, an un-American practice was going on."
Hayes blasted 7-Eleven for making little or no effort to ensure the integrity of its payroll system used by its franchisees
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Prices too high on burritos?
threat of deportation?? LOL LOL LOL...
Deportation, how dumb are they? have they been featured on more-on-trivia lately?
I question the timing.
7-11 must have been coming up light in the leftwing political contributions department.
Selling Slurpees Americans refuse to sell.
Don’t they know that only politicians are allowed to exploit illegal aliens?
I live in the 7-11 capital of the world - Suffolk County, Long Island New York. There are no hispanics working at any of the 10 7-11s within 5 miles of my house (no, I’m not exaggerating - there really are that many). They are all indian, pakistani, Bangladesh. Not a single hispanic among them.
And I’m talking high-illegal immigrant areas like Farmingville and Medford. Not a single hispanic worker at any of them.
If they weren’t here, they couldn’t be exploited.
The NY Daily News works for Obama.
Why is always called a “sweeping probe?” Why is it never a “vast probe” or an “expansive probe”?
Just because it involves illegal aliens doesn’t mean these racists have to throw around stereotypical terms like “sweeping”.
What’s next? Mopping probes and landscaping probes?
RACISTS!!
FMCDH(BITS)
Someone call Biden, seems to me he is an expert on 7-11’s and their owners.
Maybe they got too many IRS tax refund checks.
7-11 franchises are mostly owned by people from the middle-east.
(unless they are corporate owned stores - few are left)
From the article:
Charged with wire fraud are Farrukh and Bushra Baig, a married couple who controlled 12 stores in Long Island and Virginia; Farrukh's brothers Zahid Baig and Shannawaz Baig, and associates Malik Yousaf, Tariq Rana and Ramon Nanas.
In a separate scheme, Ahzar Zia and Ummar Uppal owned two 7-Elevens in Suffolk County.
Relatives and workers are cycled in and out of these stores from their home country.
Not all illegal immigrants are Mexican.
Their mostly Hispanic though and I’ve NEVER seen a Hispanic working at any if the 7-11s by me - and this is a big hispanic illegal immigrant area.
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