What a crock......interesting that the Times, in their sympathy sucking whine, left out part of the story........
http://www.americas.org/item_21034
"The raid left about 30 children, some as young as three months old, suddenly without caretakers. “A lot of those families had kids in day care in different places, and they didn’t know why Mommy and Daddy didn’t come pick them up,” said Arkadelphia mayor Charles Hollingshead. Black, the ICE spokesperson, claimed on July 29 that each person arrested was asked whether they had children. “We interviewed every person and asked that specific question, and we were told that there were none,” he said. Clark County Sheriff Troy Tucker said that if ICE had informed his office about the raid, his deputies would have made sure the agents knew about the children, some of whom had been in the local public schools for years. “They’re not doing their job by simply questioning them and asking them whether they have children and not contacting anyone locally,” said Tucker. (CNN 7/30/05 from AP) Tucker was peeved that ICE never informed his office about the pending raid. “The only advance notice we got was a radio transmission from a [state] trooper who was with [the ICE agents],” he said. (SH 7/28/05)
In a July 27 news release, ICE said the raid stemmed from an “investigation into the sale of U.S. citizen birth certificates and Social Security cards that culminated in the December 2004 arrest of a former Petit Jean employee,” Maria Moreno. Sheriff Tucker said his office began the original investigation: “We called Border Patrol and Immigration in on that one,” he complained. Information from the investigation was compared to the company’s employment records, Petit Jean manager Ronnie Farnam confirmed. ICE spokesperson Black said agents got an administrative search warrant from the U.S. District Court in Little Rock and conducted the employee audit with help from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general’s office.
Moreno worked in the plant’s personnel office for at least 10 years before leaving in 2003. She is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty February 14 in U.S. District Court at Hot Springs to one count of selling five or more identification documents, one count of possessing another person’s Social Security card, and one count of possessing a Social Security card with intent to sell.
Carl Rusnok, a spokesperson in the ICE office in Dallas, Texas, said on July 27 that he did not know how many, if any, of the arrested workers had received documents from Moreno. Rusnok said some of the workers had already been sent back to Mexico, while others were placed in local jails and in an ICE facility at Texarkana. Rusnok said the investigation was continuing, and more arrests were possible. (AD-G 7/28/05; SH 7/28/05; WT 7/28/05) With a fifth of its workers arrested, and others staying away for fear of future raids, the plant has scaled down to three production lines, from 10 before the raid. (SH 7/28/05).
By my count that's 15 years in Club Fed. Throw the book at her and make the sentences be served consecutively instead of concurrently.
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