"How many were illegal aliens?"
Probably most of them. Do you think Tyson Foods will be prosecuted for hiring illegals? I don't. And there is the problem. Without prosecution of employers AND better border enforcement, there is absolutely no incentive for employers not to hire illegals.
So they keep hiring them. They work cheap, they work hard, and they don't demand stuff. If you were Tyson Foods, you'd hire them too. No penalty for it.
Gosh, I hate it when you're right, but....you're right!
susie
I agree. I've written to my congresscritters about this, but never received a reply.
My "plan:"
For a first offense, the employer would be fined $500 per employee, if they have false "documentation," and $1000 if they don't. After that, it no longer matters. This would just be a "wakeup call" to make sure that they have good documentation.
On the second offense, the employer would be fined $5,000 per illegal employee.
On a third offense, it goes up to $25,000 per illegal.
When the jobs for illegal aliens dry up, they'll stop coming.
Mark
"If you were Tyson Foods, you'd hire them too. No penalty for it."
You're absolutely wrong. If I were Tyson I would be obeying the law.
We raised free range chickens-- that is, those that were hatched in the spring, got some outdoor exposure scratching for weeds, bugs and worms. They reached maturity shortly after the first frost in the fall and we loaded them up and took them to a Mennonite plant for processing.
We couldn't compete with the Tyson battery-raised junk sold in the supermarkets in terms of price. The first year, we had to hustle to find customers and convince people paying extra for chickens raised and processed under decent conditions was worth the money.
The second year, we made a few phone calls to our first-year customers and a few names they had given us as possibilities.
The third year, we had more calls than we could supply chickens to meet. It was a decent seasonal income, but the Tysons of the world will never allow such competition to take root so long as their subsidized by cheapened labor costs, social costs paid by the taxpayers.
Don't project your lack of patriotism and respect for the rule of law onto others you don't even know.
Fat chance. A lawsuit was filed agsainst them 3 or 4 years ago for it, but seems they bought their way out of it. I don't know the particulars. Probably not the only one.
Tyson Foods Indicted for Knowingly Importing Illegal Workers