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Hundreds nabbed in immigration raid
MSNBC.com ^ | 4/19/2006 | none

Posted on 04/19/2006 3:45:22 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX

WASHINGTON - Immigration agents arrested seven executives and hundreds of employees of a manufacturer of crates and pallets Wednesday as part of a crackdown on employers of illegal workers.

Authorities raided offices and plants of IFCO Systems in at least eight states, the culmination of a yearlong criminal investigation, law enforcement officials said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested seven current and former IFCO Systems managers on charges they conspired to transport, harbor and encourage illegal workers to reside in the United States for commercial advantage and private financial gain, said Glenn T. Suddaby, the chief federal prosecutor in Albany, N.Y., where some arrests were made.

ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback confirmed an unspecified number of raids and arrests but declined to provide additional details because the investigation was continuing. One official, speaking on condition of anonymity because numbers were still being tallied, said the arrests were in the hundreds.

Raids across the U.S. Raids took place at several locations in upstate New York and in Biglerville, Pa.; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati, Houston, Phoenix, Richmond, Va., and Westborough, Mass.

"ICE has no tolerance for corporate officers who harbor illegal aliens for their work force. Today's nationwide enforcement actions show how we will use all our investigative tools to bring these individuals to justice, no matter how large or small their company," said ICE chief Julie Myers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: aliens; deportation; illegalimmigration; invasion; mexico
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To: Supernatural
If they keep this up the illegals won't be able to find employment (eventually) and will leave on their own.

Next I can see Trickie Dickie Dirtbin in the well of the senate demanding unemployment compensation for illegals put out of a job.

61 posted on 04/19/2006 5:51:33 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: Flavius Josephus
Heh! I just snickered at your post, then said, "Wait," and my heart sank. It could happen.

Yes. I actually audibly said the word, "Wait."
62 posted on 04/19/2006 5:53:25 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: BurbankKarl

Omigod that's horrendous. You oought to put a warning on that, somebody could lose their job over it. Fortunately I was playing at home.


63 posted on 04/19/2006 5:55:26 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
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.

Isn't that sort of like racketeering and just what the RICO law was made for? Sure wish Elliot Ness Spitzer was as gungho about busting illegals as he is cigarette smokers.

64 posted on 04/19/2006 5:59:05 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: Safetgiver

I've seen Biglerville in the news a few times.


65 posted on 04/19/2006 6:00:54 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX
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To: RandallFlagg

He can get up there in the senate, I could see that, but wait... how do we know they don't already draw unemployment. Hell, they probably do.


66 posted on 04/19/2006 6:01:00 PM PDT by Flavius Josephus (Nationalism is not a crime.)
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To: Flavius Josephus
Has a Union ever been charged with a RICO violation?

Beyond that if you manage to fire them and they come back with papers a few months later, "Look I am legal now!" you will likely have to hire them back. Praying that this time the papers are legitimate. The union does not consider violation of the immigration law to be a good enough reason to permanently fire someone.

67 posted on 04/19/2006 6:07:00 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Ditch the 1967 Outer Space Treaty! I want my own space bar and grill)
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To: HEMICRASHBOX

A year long investigation? Are you kidding me? A one hour ride in my truck in New Jersey and I'll show them 400 on a slow day! And they can sit and arrest 40-50 contractors who stop and pick them up.! What a joke!!!!


68 posted on 04/19/2006 6:13:56 PM PDT by Fire137 (If this is not a war I don't know what one is)
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To: Supernatural
If they keep this up the illegals won't be able to find employment (eventually) and will leave on their own.

Some might leave, but I believe a large majority will simple head underground to cash businesses, or become self-employed contractors, etc.

There are countless ways to make a living while steering clear of the IRS or immigration agents.

That is why Congress MUST boost penalties (or enforce) for simply BEING in the US illegally, so once an illegal is located, cops have the tools to incarcerate and deport. (Unfortunately, Frist and the GOP wussies lost their gonads recently).

The other business that will further grow is identity theft and ID forgery, UNLESS the Congress creates national fool-proof encrypted ID cards, which I wholeheartedly approve.

69 posted on 04/19/2006 6:23:40 PM PDT by Edit35
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To: Fire137

Is it budget time at ICE?


70 posted on 04/19/2006 6:25:46 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX
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To: MojoWire
If the existing laws were enforced and there were hundreds being arrested every day the problem could be managed.

That is hundreds of employers being arrested and jailed!

71 posted on 04/19/2006 6:33:24 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: HEMICRASHBOX
If you want to learn anything about this Julie Myers just go to Debbie Schlussel's web site.

IMO Ms. Myers is in way over her head at ICE.

72 posted on 04/19/2006 6:44:21 PM PDT by mickie
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To: Supernatural

You say they will leave on their own if they lose their jobs.
I doubt it.Its better to be poor and jobless in America than Mexico.So I think they will just stay here and hustle up work somewhere else in the underground economy.


73 posted on 04/19/2006 6:49:25 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: buccaneer81; HEMICRASHBOX
Good to see ICE doing their job.

Damn shame that they do their job so rarely, that it is big news when they do.

74 posted on 04/19/2006 7:07:05 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: HEMICRASHBOX

I just hope we get control the boarders and deal with existing problems in such a way that both sides are able to win. Like it or not there are quite a few good people in this country who are not legal.


75 posted on 04/19/2006 7:08:33 PM PDT by TBall
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To: twidle
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.

No, me thinks if ICE will send formal letters of intent, asking the Company to provide detailed informations about it's work force, would be a better deterrent.

Pretty much like an audit, not for the financial branch but for the Human Resources branch.
Go by the book, you're good to go, if not, you're screwed!

Just like the IRS.

The Rules/Laws are out here, just ENFORCE THE DAMN THINGS! and we all be in good shape!

76 posted on 04/19/2006 7:29:20 PM PDT by danmar ("Reason obeys itself,and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it....... Thomas Paine)
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To: HEMICRASHBOX

The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers
inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists'
abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees.
Here's an interesting new thread on new legal reform progress that finally
emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts

We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the
neighborly thing to do?


77 posted on 04/19/2006 8:20:24 PM PDT by Shuttle Shucker
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To: PizzaDriver

I know what you are talking about. I got the police and INS in to bust illegals and they issued 11 citations on the owners for violations. However, the absentee landlord is in Greece and he ignored them.


78 posted on 04/19/2006 8:46:25 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: TBall

"I just hope we get control the boarders and deal with existing problems in such a way that both sides are able to win"




My guess it is "I win/ You Lose" situation with all this illegal behavior and demands of illegals. US does not need all these mexicans here to set up their own government against us. You hear the news, this is their country* and they have no intention of changing their culture. They sound a lot like the Muslim extremists.There are entire towns full of "chicanos". Prisons are chock full of them. In past a mixture of immigrants was thought to be a plus for US as long as there is none which is majority. Checks and Balances work with diversity.

The rest of us will have to unite to prevent them from getting control against us. I doubt we will be able to get all of illegals, tenacious ones will be able to figure a way to beat the system. It's not the few we are concerned about, but the criminals and the "hordes".


*even though it was Spanish who had it before them.They don't seem interested in win/win. Communists and tyrants just want a horde of humans to do what they want with false short range promises to ignorant people.






79 posted on 04/19/2006 9:30:48 PM PDT by twidle (Just because everybody does it doesn't make it ok!!)
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To: Brad's Gramma
It is the preparation for starting. Getting serious is when the numbers start with, "Today we arrested 3000 employees who are illegal immigrants, not undocumented workers and 200 managers with 10 senior executives in six companies.

Do they need a place to start? I suggest Iowa Beef Packers plants and Tyson Chicken plants.

80 posted on 04/19/2006 9:38:28 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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