Posted on 08/22/2018 7:56:32 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
An Iowa farming company said late Tuesday that the man charged in the death of an Iowa college student was a employee in "good standing" who passed a government background check, The Des Moines Register reported.
Yarrabee Farms said in a statement that Cristhian Bahena Rivera, who was charged with the murder of Mollie Tibbetts, worked for the family operation for four years. The family said it was unaware Rivera was an undocumented immigrant, according to The Des Moines Register.
"This individual has worked at our farms for four years, was vetted through the government's E-Verify system, and was an employee in good standing," Yarrabee Farms said. "On Monday, the authorities visited our farm and talked to our employees. We have cooperated fully with their investigation."
The farm added that it regularly seeks outside counsel to ensure it remains up-to-date on employment law, and keeps records on all workers.
The statement referenced E-Verify, which is an online system run by the federal government that allows employers to view the eligibility of its foreign workers. It's not clear how Rivera passed a background check if he was in the country illegally.
Rivera, 24, was charged with murder in connection to the death of Tibbetts, 20, who had been missing for more than a month before authorities discovered her body this week.
Authorities said that Rivera led investigators to Tibbetts’s body, according to The Washington Post.
At a Tuesday rally in West Virginia, President Trump seized on the charge to underscore his push for stricter immigration laws.
"You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly, from Mexico, and you saw what happened to that incredible, beautiful young woman. Should’ve never happened," Trump said at a rally in Charleston, W.Va.
"We’ve had a huge impact but the laws are so bad," he continued. "The immigration laws are such a disgrace. We’re getting them changed, but we have to get more Republicans."
That's a strong accusation without any evidence. Sounds from the article that the employer did his due diligence. Now if it turns out he was paying him under the table, then maybe you're correct. But if he was being paid by payroll, including tax withholdings, what would motivate the employer to leave such an audit trail for something illegal?
It’s called AUTOMATION.
Occam's Razor.
Who vetts the vetters?
Illegal Aliens have wormed their way into the E-verify system.
Good luck rooting them out!
Where’s the proof... talk is cheap. It is well known that this company is a revolving door for illegal immigrants? running information through a corrupt government system is hardly doing your due diligence...cross check social security # with IRS data might be a prudent thing to do.
“Yes, that’s the purpose. That means the illegal committed more than basic identity fraud, as the system is designed to catch basic SSN theft and the like. It suggests that the human traffickers are selling a reasonably-sophisticated identity fraud product to illegals.”
He’s also right age to be a Dreamer......
Are you telling me that a that a business owner doesn’t know that an 18 year old who can’t speak English, with no high school diploma shows up with a shiny new Social security card ( let’s assume they didn’t provide it for him ) and your too dumb to know he’s illegal... no way.... not buying it. I do wonder what he was paid/hr did he file taxes? Did he get a W2? these are good questions... bet you a lot of money we’ll never get the answers.
There is a record of eVerify and it seems like that’s what they’re presenting. Sounds like they did due diligence. If everything businesses are required to do (over regulated to do, I’d add), and it all says clear, what do you propose? Seems like cross checking was what they did...
Our farm worker, Ric Flair, passed the eVerify check.
Most likely he was not being paid by payroll. A work group leader was probably being paid in his name for the labor of a half dozen others in the group. On the books it looks like minimum-wage payments to one person. In reality that same payment is divided by several people, with the group leader taking a premium cut.
Cheap labor. No recourse for the workers for anything, because they are illegals. Plausible deniability for the employer. What a sweetheart deal. Until something goes wrong.
“Is this not the purpose of E-Verify? “
As long as an illegal alien get a Taxpayer Identification Number, a TIN (Not an SSN), e-verify will pass them.
It is also how illegal aliens register to vote.
We should have picked our own damn cotton.
Today, we are in that very same situation.
I am not making any judgement on the business owner yet. But whatever occurred will certainly get the spot light now. So if it was a hole in the system, that should get addressed. If it was bad action on the employer, he should be charged.
Here’s the problem with this. If you go the legal and ethical route, then the ‘Juan’ you end up with, will require regular pay and social security/medicare. Maybe someone with insight to the pay business will jump into this discussion, but I would imagine the legal ‘Juan’ would cost you 30-percent more. You go and lay out the farm income and the man-hours required, and it’s a tough balancing act to survive as a farmer these days.
I do agree, we ought to go and operate a simple work-visa program where a ‘Juan’ does everything legal, has the paperwork, and the farmer can feel happy over the pay and work requirements. But I’ll add this comment...right now, it’s very possible that you’d end up with some Honduran kid who is 14 years old and you get in serious child-labor issues because of the open door mess and our approach to the whole worker concept.
Agreed, they are part of the problem. This illegal activity on a national scale has to stop.
I follow your post as one means of cheating the system, but not sure how it would work in this case, given the employer is saying the perp was verified thru e-verify.
That is what the I9 process is for.
Second, if the person vetted committed ID theft including using a bogus SSN, then the system can be circumvented.
IMO I don't believe he was checked thru e-verify.
Remind me to stay clear of Yarrabee Farms.
E-verify is all automated. You enter the data and get back a response within a few seconds.
You pay them more money to attract workers. It is called the marketplace. Supply and demand. When you bring in an inexhaustible supply of cheap, illegal labor, you depress wages and take jobs from Americans.
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