Posted on 06/05/2018 9:45:31 AM PDT by RightGeek
The company should be fined a 100 grand for each offense.
Government agents take a man suspected of living in the country illegally into custody during an immigration sting at Corso's Flower and Garden Center in Castalia, Ohio, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. The operation is one of the largest against employers in recent years on allegations of violating immigration laws
Updated today, 12:46 p.m.
The allegations involved harboring and hiring of illegal aliens, aggravated identity theft and impersonation of U.S. persons, Francis said.
Agents carried boxes out from Corso’s location, 3404 Milan Road, as they seized “a lot of documentary evidence,” Francis said.
The execution of warrants represents just the beginning of the investigation, which first started last October, when Border Patrol arrested a suspected document vendor, said Khaalid Walls, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman.
“Now the agents and officers will start conducting interviews,” Francis said. “We are attempting to identify what criminal network brought over 100 illegal aliens to Ohio to work. We are looking at the employers or other networks that are smuggling individual into the U.S. and finding them places of employment.”
The Associated Press reported the raid was part of the Trump administration’s growing crackdown on employers hiring people who are in the country illegally.
“If you are a legitimate business you have nothing to be concerned about, but if you are harboring or hiring illegal aliens you will be identified, arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Francis added.
The illegal aliens who were arrested will be detained pending removal proceedings at facilities in Ohio and Michigan, Walls said.
Throughout Tuesday morning, the Register received numerous phone calls about the raid with many callers indicating agents were “armed with sub-machine guns.” The agents were carrying their issued weapons, which is standard procedure, and the weapons were probably misconstrued as something else, Francis said.
“I am not aware of anyone with a submachine gun,” Francis said. “Our officers were out there executing the warrants however they feel they need to, to ensure the safety and security of both themselves and the community.”
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201806050007
In other news in and around Sandusky Ohio...
Local Garden Center to hire 100+ summer workers immediately.
I ain’t no ways tired of winning.
I can think of 3 places around my neck of the cornfield that I suspect could yield this many or more arrests.
Landscaping company
Seed company
Canning company
Nothing would do more to slow illegal immigration and send illegals already here home than charging business owners and executives with the most serious crimes they can be charged with. That and required e-Verify would work wonders.
Not to mention billions of dollars are sent back to mexico every year. Dollars NOT spent here to support our economy, or create jobs. etc.etc.
Also these jobs could certainly be done by school students...so it robs our youth of employment....no matter what the illegals say....they are robbing our citizens, our kids, and our country......
I would hope students and unemployed would jump at that.
Hope you don’t mind I posted photos etc. I generally just jump on as most are glad for the visuals.
Don’t mind at all - thanks
Good start. Now indict the employer
shhhh. Don’t look to closely at McDonald’s
I guarantee they were receiving query letters from the IRS for each and every one of those 114 employees............IF that is they actually reported them as employees.
What I have sen of landscape companies, they work their people like animals, understaffed in the field and unreasonable work demands, so I can see why they have so many illegals working for them. They can abuse them because the illegal is fearful of being reported.
The IRS can then use tax liens to seize the whole business without even going to court first.
A few examples and massive self-deportation begins.
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