“Stolen Social Security numbers were being used by many of the illegals rounded up two weeks ago in the largest immigration raid in a decade, unsealed court affidavits obtained by the Democrat reveal.
The stolen identities were being used to gain employment and evade detection, federal officials said.
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement working in concert with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi detained 680 people two weeks ago after serving administrative and criminal search warrants at seven chicken processing plants in six Mississippi towns, including Canton and nearby Carthage.
At the Peco Foods plant at 1039 W. Fulton St. in Canton, approximately 150 were detained on Aug. 7. Peco Foods in Walnut Grove, Pearl River Foods in Carthage, Koch Foods in Morton, A&B Inc. in Pelahatchie, PH Food Inc. in Morton, and Peco Foods in Bay Springs were also targeted.
Mike Hurst, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District, said the execution of the search warrants was a culmination of a year-long investigation.
According to court affidavits, ICE had approximately 222 historical encounters and/or arrests with illegal aliens at Peco Foods between November 2002 and June 2019.
Despite arguments on the national and local stages that the illegal immigrants detained were committing “victimless” crimes, the affidavits paint a much different picture.
The affidavits state that illegal immigrants were purchasing fake identification ranging from $200 up to $1,000 in some cases. The stolen information, in some instances, included social security numbers of deceased people.
On June 3, one woman told investigators that she was denied unemployment benefits because the government thought she was employed at Pearl River Foods after her identity was stolen, court filings reveal.”
I seen some sad stories where people’s identities were stolen and it ruined their lives. The IRS told them it was not their job to investigate what was obviously stolen identities.
As well as deporting all of these illegals, heavy fines & criminal punishment needs to be meted out on the employers. It will set an example. I hope many more of these raids are on the horizon.
From another article on the same raid:
Remember Maria Domingo-Garcia – the illegal alien mother who claimed to be breastfeeding a baby and got the media to shed tears on her behalf? Not only did ICE confirm she was not lactating, but it turns out that far from being a sympathetic victim, she actually victimized an American citizen or legal immigrant with identity theft.
Yesterday, Domingo-Garcia was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of ID theft and documentation fraud. The unsealed indictment, which was signed by a federal magistrate in the Southern District of Mississippi, charges Domingo-Garcia with knowingly obtaining a stolen Social Security card to gain employment at the Koch Foods plant in Norton, Mississippi, and falsely representing the identity of that number to obtain benefits.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/08/21/illegal-made-false-claim-ice-finds-felony-indictment/
Congress has written the laws about using a someone else’s social security number is such a way that employers can get in trouble if they try to do something when a SS # check comes back as invalid. Congress does this cloudy Law-making on purpose to protect their big donors. Congress could fix this one in short order if they wanted to. They do not.
How much did Obama pay for his Social Security number?