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ICE immigration sweep in California puts employers and families on edge
CBS "News" ^ | February 16, 2018

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: Minnesota; US: New York; US: Texas
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Mike Poindexter

1 posted on 02/16/2018 6:32:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“ICE immigration sweep in California puts employers and families on edge”

Good.


2 posted on 02/16/2018 6:33:37 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When you break the law and are living in the USA illegally, you should be “on edge.”


3 posted on 02/16/2018 6:33:44 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good.


4 posted on 02/16/2018 6:33:57 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Illegal aliens should be so worried about arrest that they go home.


5 posted on 02/16/2018 6:35:02 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is a shame that commie loving illegal loving employers like this are not penalized.


6 posted on 02/16/2018 6:35:58 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
hey Mike, its time for a new business model.
7 posted on 02/16/2018 6:36:12 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He says most Americans don’t want these labor-intensive jobs

Can’t he just move his Farm to Mexico then.


8 posted on 02/16/2018 6:36:26 AM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nothing to worry about if your are not here illegally, yeah?


9 posted on 02/16/2018 6:36:34 AM PST by cranked
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just on edge?! They should be in fear. Okay, need more ICE, more and very public arrests. How about the California AG’s self-admitted illegal family?! Maybe him for conspiracy? Let’s see some real action and not crumbs.


10 posted on 02/16/2018 6:36:40 AM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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."

It's illegal to use e-verify?

11 posted on 02/16/2018 6:37:03 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

12 posted on 02/16/2018 6:37:12 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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The business owner was busted 10 years ago and he has continued to employ illegal aliens.
That needs to be corrected.
When employers start losing their businesses instead of just money, they will stop hiring illegal aliens.


13 posted on 02/16/2018 6:37:35 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mike Poindexter, Public Enemy. Prefers low wages and illegal workers instead of real wages and legal workers. Then, has the nerve to say no Americans will work at his low wages. Pathetic. Pay a real wage and Americans will do the work. If the pay is right, there has NEVER been a shortage of good American talent.


14 posted on 02/16/2018 6:38:34 AM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK, what’s the downside?


15 posted on 02/16/2018 6:41:40 AM PST by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>>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.<<

You are underpaying them.

It isn’t they don’t want the jobs — they don’t want the jobs at the wage you are offering.


16 posted on 02/16/2018 6:43:18 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

>>When employers start losing their businesses instead of just money, they will stop hiring illegal aliens.

<<

The heck with money. Time to add jail time for the second infraction. Maybe THAT will get threir attention.


17 posted on 02/16/2018 6:45:10 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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To: Reno89519

As the sole provider for his family of six,

So this low wage worker is supporting his family of six on those low wages? Sure he is. Poindexter’s low wage employees are being subsidized by the US taxpayers, as usual.


18 posted on 02/16/2018 6:46:29 AM PST by sheana
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Exactly. We, consumers, either pay upfront with a fair market price based on honest labor or we pay via taxes so the employer can cheat Americans and used foreign labor as part of his business profit model. I’d rather pay double for the item and know it is legal product in all ways, than save money at the register only to pay via taxes later.


19 posted on 02/16/2018 6:49:55 AM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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1 yr in the pen for each illegal he hires will put a stop to it.


20 posted on 02/16/2018 6:50:53 AM PST by Eagles6
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