I don't know much about the employment of illegal aliens but could these owners have not known they were illegals after seven years of employment? If they did know they were illegals, how do the owners escape prosecution?
Oh they knew all right.Too bad the story didn't reveal how much the farmers were paying these Mexicans.Probably less than half of the prevailing wage.
The article indicates that the federal prosecutors tried to get the illegals to testify against their employers, but that the illegals chose deportation rather than a plea bargain with testimony.