Posted on 07/12/2007 8:55:52 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
Francisco Carlos Solano... Inés Solano... Consuelo Solano... Juan Faustino Solano... were charged with employing and harboring illegal immigrants, money laundering and structuring deposits to avoid financial reporting requirements... Nine employees of their El Pollo Rico restaurant in Wheaton were taken into custody and will be placed in deportation proceedings...
Federal agents say the Solanos deposited more than $6.6 million into a business account between June 2002 and September 2006 in increments of $7,000 to $9,000, which authorities say was done to avoid filing currency transaction reports that must be submitted with deposits that exceed $10,000....
Federal agents seized more than $2 million in cash and jewelry from the Solanos' residences and vehicles...
"We stopped by to eat their pollo al brasa so many times when we were undocumented."
A Guatemalan who works at El Pollo Rico... was devastated to learn that one of her cousins was taken into custody. "He had already built half of a house in Guatemala. Now none of his dreams will come to pass."
Word of the arrests spread throughout the community yesterday, with callers on local Spanish-language radio stations warning listeners to stay away from Maryland...
"What occurred here was not right... They took those poor guys as if they were criminals..."
At least four Montgomery County police officers helped federal agents conduct the investigation... The officers' role was to interview El Pollo Rico employees to gather information about their identity and employment, according to the affidavit...
The extent to which Montgomery officers get involved in immigration matters has become a hotly debated issue in the county...
"We were interviewing witnesses to a crime," said Lt. Ron Hardy of the Montgomery County police special investigations division.
"No action was taken against any of these people when we interviewed them. I don't know if any of those who were interviewed were eventually arrested," by immigration agents..
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
What is it you don’t get about that?!!!
L E G A L
You got it!
Hiding under their rocks after hit and run like the COWARDS they are!
Check this out...
RE: NTR - Landscaping companies
“I only let illegals work in my yard. They get it done in a day and it is very quality work. Sadly, I’m not in Memphis.”
Pseudo is NTR, he has used several user names before beginning as Tony and then progressing from that
www.indymedia
““I only let illegals work in my yard.”
Only a little bit pregnant : )
Wonderful.
*sigh*
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