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Computer 'raid' in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated
Los Angeles Times ^ | June 12, 2009 | Patrick J. McDonnell

Posted on 06/12/2009 1:25:12 PM PDT by jeannineinsd

Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in the L.A. area, terminates more than 200 employees after an IRS audit finds that they had provided 'invalid or fraudulent' Social Security numbers.

No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month and now find themselves in a precarious employment market, without severance pay or medical insurance. It wasn't a hot tip or an undercover informant that helped seal their fates, but a computer check of Social Security numbers.

"A desktop raid" is how the workers' representative, John M. Grant, vice president of Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, described the scenario.

Overhill, a $200-million-a-year company that provides frozen meals for clients such as American Airlines, Panda Express, Safeway and Jenny Craig, says it had no choice: An Internal Revenue Service audit found that 260 workers had provided "invalid or fraudulent" Social Security numbers. The government took no action against the workers. But Overhill did: All of the employees were fired May 31.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; everify; illegals; immigration; sobstory
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To: jeannineinsd

Send his little ass back too.....anchor baby....


41 posted on 06/12/2009 2:38:00 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DoughtyOne

I agree with you about the LA Times. There is no acknowledgment, no respect for the laws of our country, nor for the people who obey the laws.

Jeannine


42 posted on 06/12/2009 2:53:26 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
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To: jeannineinsd
It is getting harder and harder to believe that illegal immigrants are only doing jobs that Americans don't want.

You mean someone actually believed that?

43 posted on 06/12/2009 2:57:39 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: jeannineinsd

That’s essentially the leftist position these days. There’s no respect for the law or the people who chose to abide by it.

The LA Times is thus just adhering to the leftist policy.

Are there any leftist who give a darn whether Obama is a citizen or not? Of course not. They accept that he is rather than question it themselves. The idea their conscience should be engaged on any subject related to Democrat’s is null and void.


44 posted on 06/12/2009 2:58:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama post 09/11. The U.S. is sorry, we are a Muslim nation, and we surrender.)
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To: jeannineinsd

Thanks for the note of agreement.


45 posted on 06/12/2009 2:59:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama post 09/11. The U.S. is sorry, we are a Muslim nation, and we surrender.)
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To: jeannineinsd

Boo. Hoo.


46 posted on 06/12/2009 3:11:19 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
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To: jeannineinsd

I have a question.

If these numbers were invalid or fraudulent, that means there is no real, legal person to credit with the “contribution.”

What did the gov’t do with the money they were sent ?

I bet they didn’t refund it.


47 posted on 06/12/2009 3:19:35 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: PLMerite
If these numbers were invalid or fraudulent, that means there is no real, legal person to credit with the “contribution.”

What did the gov’t do with the money they were sent ?

I bet they didn’t refund it.

You Betcha!

And I'll bet the company is just damned happy not to get the warranted fines to ask for their SS contribution back,

Since it doesn't appear that ICE is tracking these thieving aliens down, it's a nice shake down by the gov. for very little effort which they can they repeat as necessary when the thieving aliens find work elsewhere,

48 posted on 06/12/2009 3:32:52 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: jeannineinsd

It’s frightening that the IRS could make so many mistakes. /s


49 posted on 06/12/2009 4:58:23 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: dalereed
Apparently you don’t know or understand the law, idiot!

Not the most gracious of concession speeches, but I'll accept it as such. I certainly won't lower myself to insulting you back.

Good luck in your future endeavors.

50 posted on 06/12/2009 11:12:14 PM PDT by Cheburashka ("Ah, Roulette. My favorite game, after Call of Duty.")
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To: jeannineinsd

Not that it will happen, but these people will really be in a world of hurt if the company’s medical insurance provider(s) decided that the claims they’d made using fake ID were fraudulent, therefore they are liable for payments made on their behalf.


51 posted on 06/13/2009 12:11:19 AM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: jeannineinsd
"I'm an anchor baby. Now Mama y papa have to go on welfare or get SS to support me. Please send us all home."
52 posted on 06/13/2009 4:24:24 AM PDT by Dosa26
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To: jeannineinsd

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53 posted on 06/14/2009 6:52:50 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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