If you had "Several Hunderd not show up for work" because of the arrest of 21 for illegal status, it is time for the admin group to be combing the personnel records for other scofflaws....
Turning a blind eye to the correct status of a prospective employee is bad news and expensive for everyone involved.
Illegal gets hired= citizen does NOT get hired.
Illegal gives momentum to others of same persuasion=more and more of the lemmings coming north, working or not.
Illegal gets "injured" on the job= payment for "injuries, and now has entire "family" of who knows how many have now followed the illegal north...
Workmen's Comp goes thru the roof, not only for the "employer" involved, but for every employer in that grouping of work type in that state. EI: All roofers in the state will be impacted by the payments made to this illegal hired by one roofing company.
That spirals all our costs out of sight...
Crime, emergency room costs, school costs...all go thru the ceiling.
That's assuming that the workers are on the books. A BIG assumption.
From my limited understanding of - for instance - the roofing industry, "questionable" workers are paid cash - no insurance, no worker's comp needed. You get hurt? Too bad. Plenty more workers where you came from.
When those costs are taken out of the mix, it makes it hard for an honest employer to compete. That's why I think that the ICE agents are going after the wrong people. So they deported 21. There's still millions to go. BUT - if they go after the employer that hired these illegals - now that's hitting them where it hurts.
Going by the sound of the article, IMHO, there's no way management could NOT know what's going on. This isn't just a college student that overstayed their visa. When this many people are involved, it's a conscious decision to hire illegals and those involved need to be punished to the full extent of the law.