Posted on 02/16/2018 6:32:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Federal immigration agents are escalating efforts to crack down on businesses hiring undocumented workers. New data released Friday morning shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement visited 122 businesses over the past five days, mostly in Southern California.
Mike Poindexter is CEO of his family business the Poindexter Nut Company near Fresno, California. He says most Americans don't want these labor-intensive jobs.
"We hire people all the time. They show up, they work two days and they leave," Poindexter said.
His company is now being audited by ICE.
"We've had somewhere between 5 to 10 percent of our workforce quit voluntarily just over this," he said.
Asked why he's not hiring workers legally documented to work in the U.S. Poindexter said, "because they show up with documentation… Here's my green card, here's my social security card and it is illegal for me to question that."
When the company was audited 10 years ago, Poindexter says they were forced to let go of 70 percent of the workforce, costing the business about $2 million.
"They said you think it's OK to hire illegals? I said I've got a person with three American-born children, U.S. citizens and I have to fire both of their parents, both of them," he said.
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Keep the heat on, the bastards are scurrying around like a bunch of red ants on live ant hill.
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer. Poindexter belongs in prison, by his own admission he's persisted for years in doing the same illegal things, and doing them knowingly, even knows enough about his employees who he dishonestly claims work a couple of days then leave to know that he employs both parents of three children and that he is the sole employer.
Immigrants are in fear? Why, the word immigrant implies they are legally here
Is cbs playing with words? Does cbs have bias, an agenda...?
“They said you think it’s OK to hire illegals? I said I’ve got a person with three American-born children, U.S. citizens and I have to fire both of their parents, both of them,” he said.
Just proves that this situation has gone on FAR too long. Why were two illegals allowed to stay here long enough to sire three kids who, by the way, should NOT be American citizens?
ICE immigration sweep in California puts employers HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS and ILLEGAL ALIEN families on edge”
In other words, LAWBREAKERS are "on edge."
Someone please tell me why I'm supposed to have sympathy for people who are anxious about the effects of their lawbreaking activities.
They don't want those jobs for the wages you are paying. Raise your wages and you will get legal American workers.
Our puto AG (Beccerra)here in California has threatened businesses if they comply with the feds. Go pound sand puto.
Because didn't Jerry Brown declare Kalifornia a sanctuary state, on top of all the sanctuary cities in the state?
I also thought the Kalifornia AG Xavier Becerra claimed he was going to prevent ICE from doing their jobs in the state?
And wasn't Eric Holder hired to push back on any Trump administration incursions into the state?
How's that working out for the state guys?
Kalifornia Dreamin'.....
Exactly, employers of illegal aliens get their cheap labor and the citizens must bear the true cost, both human and financial.
I just saw a video where activists surrounded an ICE van so it couldn’t move. The agents just sat in the van. This defiance of law enforcement needs to stop!
Must be a Democrat. The new slave owners. It’s a tradition.
“Undocumented workers”
More sob story propaganda from the lame stream media.
He has to verify it’s a real green card and not a borrowed Social Security number, for sure.
He wants slave labor, cheap.
Obviously not enough of a penalty to change behavior.
Soooo, how many illegals did ICE deport from those 122 visits? Huh? None?
“ICE immigration sweep in California puts employers and families on edge”
If you are here illegally - LEAVE!
Lo siento. He and the people he hired knew (and underestimated) the risks. Now they must face the consequences. As the ICE is gets into back to the business of finding and deporting illegal aliens, he and a lot of others that use this business model are up the creek without a paddle.
I can’t wait until the IRS wants a piece of his azz and his wife takes the kids and files for the divorce and child support payments. That’s what he gets for his white privilege and no Plan B.
As for the illegals, they will be back to the nearest Lowes or Home Depot parking lot waiting for the next employment opportunity to present itself. In between employment, they will have government assistance provided by taxpayers to support them.
Who cares if they miss a payment on the ol’ F150 every now and then. The car dealers and bankers don’t. If the vehicle parked next to their bedroom window every night does get repossessed, illegals always seem to qualify for another new car/truck loan by overestimating the amount and source of their income. But that is another way business is conducted with the illegal alien population.
It’s a national security thing, but progressives and the liberal media want to politicize it to protect the illegal aliens in this country in order to win their votes. Deport the illegals and they lose their voters. If that happens, I think the economy will adjust for the loss of cheap labor and it’s expense upon the taxpayers. The outcome may be favorable in the long run.
Next on the ICE agenda should be the landlords who rent to illegals. Meanwhile the courts, judges, and lawyers (provided free on the taxpayer dollar) who defend the “rights” of these non-citizens who have no rights, should be abolished, impeached, or disbarred from practicing law.
We need to follow our Constitution and rules of law and disregard the globalists who want to tax us (without representation) and force us to follow their rules of law.
Most ag products can be harvested through automation, especially nuts.
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