Hundreds nabbed in immigration raid

MSNBC.com ^ | 4/19/2006 | none

[VOATNOW1]

Hire an illegal and go to jail.

[joesnuffy]

Hmmm ignore the thousands at chicken plants frozen foods and cannerys...?

[twidle]

......then there are the rest of the employers: Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Macdonalds, Taco Bell, DellTaco, Target, Wal-mart, Construction Sites,Restaurants* ....... If the company is not union, you can believe they have illegal workers.

So, why investigate issue arrest warrants to hundreds of company owners at the same time; just get out the local phone book check alphabetically. No matter which one you chose of the millions in this country, all but two per
cent of them have illegal workers.

Betcha the illegals are turned loose to go to another company in the US, but if arrest warrants sent all at at the same time such as 10,000 in each state first of each month for six months straight, illegals will have no place to run but Mexico.

[RedMonqey]

If the feds can and DO use the RICO Act to bust small businesses that innocently run afoul of some inane fed law, then why not agaist these big businesses and seize THEIR illegal profits off this crime?

[SteveMcKing]

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave.asp?strID=C00041566&Cycle=2002&txtSort=A

HEALY, JOHN J MR
WASHINGTON, DC20008 IFCO SYSTEMS/VICE PRESIDENT BUSINES 12/31/2001 $500

PAC NAME: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES APAC
Washington DC, 20005
FEC COMMITTEE ID: C00041566

INDUSTRY: Misc Business
General commerce

*Based on data released by the FEC on Tuesday, April 18, 2006.

[KoRn]

I hope the feds fine that company out of existence.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If the company is not union, you can believe they have illegal workers.

Actually if the company is Union it is a almost a certainty that they do and that the union is fighting tooth and nail to prevent them from being fired.

[Safetgiver]

Biglerville, Pa.;....Thank the Lord.

[PizzaDriver]

As We worry about “Illegal Immigration” we are ignoring the third side of the triangle. [Family, Career & Home]… or… {I work Here}. Work & People are, currently, in the discussion mix. Bosses & Immigrants have been blamed. Predatory Landlords have been ignored.

Slumlords & dishonest property managers should be a Major part of the Issue. Those folks delight in preying on tenants that Pay in Cash for substandard housing & don’t complain. Those Scoundrels can Over Charge, yet under-report their Income, while they collect their rent in CASH. They quietly ignore Occupancy Codes & Safety Codes, while lining their own pockets, intimidating their tenants and ignoring the "resident owners" surrounding their Cash Cows.

I’m baffled that neither the Media nor our Elected Officials have recognized the role of Slumlords in “Border Policy”.

[winker]

Pin a Medal on SOMEBODY!!!!

[stopem]

Hope it's the first of many companies to come!
ByeBye criminals!

Now secure the border and we can all calm down again.

[stopem]

P.S. ::hint....good way to boost your ratings in the polls.... we love it!!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Just so much hype to quite the restless natives, naught will come from this, the follow up results to story will be sound of crickets chirping.

[Marine Inspector]

Slumlords are a byproduct of illegal immigration, not a source. Remove the source and the byproduct dies off.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"Finally somebody starts to get it. Let's hope executives from untold numbers of other companies recognize their chance to dump their illegals."

Dream on, so much puff fluff, no substance here.

[Marine Inspector]

This was the "garner support for Juile Myers" raid.

[Trajan88]

too bad it was only hundreds... would have been nice if it were hundreds of thousands... even better... millions.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I could never get over 30 out of 88, but better average than ICE methinks.

[Jim_Curtis]

Hmmm ignore the thousands at chicken plants frozen foods and cannerys...?

Gives them something to think about though.

They do need to bust a household-name chicken processing plant next though. I know a truck driver who picks up at all of these chicken plants and he says they have all gone illegal because when one goes illegal they all need to so they can compete with the first one.

I'm sure there are lots of industries that follow the same course.

[Conservative Actuary]

A couple more arrests like this and won't have to worry about deporting the illegals the jobs will dry up and so will the flood.