Posted on 08/29/2019 11:37:51 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
She’d lived in the United States for years. An ICE agent acknowledged she posed no security risk. She regularly attended her local Baptist church. And her 18-year-old son was a U.S. citizen.
But Magistrate Judge Linda Anderson rejected the Guatemalan migrant’s request for release on bond, citing the woman’s alleged use of an alias and a lack of witnesses to testify to her community ties. The decision left her son sobbing outside the courtroom.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 680 workers in Mississippi at the beginning of the month in the largest single-state operation in the agency’s 16-year history. Charges for the employers have yet to be filed, but the operation wrenched many low-paid poultry workers away from their children. At least one of the workers was still breastfeeding when she was detained.
ICE insists that the operation aimed to build a criminal case against employers who systematically contracted unauthorized workers at seven poultry processors across the state. But instead of cultivating the workers as sources of information, the Trump administration is prosecuting dozens of them ― largely under criminal immigration laws that several Democratic presidential candidates have pledged to repeal.
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I can't say I'm able to muster much sympathy for the illegals who were caught but the defense attorney has a point. Until the employers are in the dock and being tried, convicted, and jailed for a considerable period then there is no reason to believe this problem will end soon. The idea that ICE is still building their case is laughable. It isn't ICE's job to charge the employers, it's the local U.S. Attorney's job. And yet there are crickets from them.
I don’t think anyone buys into “we need them here” and “jobs Americans won’t do”. Then something horrific occurred to me. These people don’t bring anything with them but the rags on their backs. What makes them so valuable? Well, they all have two kidneys, a liver, and a heart. Then it hit me like a hammer. That’s why we let them drive drunk.
Exactly, but the wheels of justice turn slowly sometimes... To put an employer up on trial for knowingly hiring illegals, you have to have evidence (not hearsay) that they knowingly employ illegals.
These arrests, and the evidence that will be gained at trial agains them, will certainly provide the DOJ with more than enough probable cause to start going after the employer.
A few of these folks will probably make arrangements with the feds to fast track their immigration status to legal in exchange for testimony against their former employer.
Justice isn’t always pretty.
You can bet if its in the huffington puffington post it is probably an anti Trump BS sob story. (That works for yahoo “news” and rolling stone too).
I can’t must ANY sympathy for the illegals, but you do make a great point about the employers and the US Attorney’s office. However, the illegals are on their own. The employer has the mayor, county commissioners, state legislator’s, and probably federal legislators in his/her hip pocket, so they’ll walk. And when the dust settles and no one is looking they’ll go back to hiring more illegals.
Is he really?
HOORAY I.C.E.
What say you, Bill? “Better put some ice on that”? RAPIST. Just don’t start the Pedophile Trailer.
What about the fake SS number she used to be employed? If I did that I'd be nailed for fraud and identity theft.
The EMPLOYERS need to be jailed and fined, over and over and over.
She's a Christian and her son was born here because she ILLEGALLY broke into my Country, and had a bastard kid.
Since he was born in the USA, that only means he has lived here on my money for 18 years, he is not a US citizen.
Kick them out.
Children of illegal aliens are not citizens, despite what the feckless Congress calls them.
BFD.
He's right. BOTH need to be aggressively prosecuted.
What part of “illegal” do they not understand. Breaking the law is the only relevant point, not whether her son cried.
They've got 680 pieces of evidence in custody right now.
Forget the fines. Lock them up for 10 or 20 years. Hiring illegals will end overnight after a few sentences like that.
Christian my foot. Apparently senora skipped over “Thou shall not covet thy neighbors wife’’.. Or his country. Or his Social Security number.
In a previous job, I was involved in interviewing and hiring, and I always had to collect proof from new hires that they were legal to work in the United States. I have applied for jobs and that question is always part of the application.
What happened at this chicken processor? The same thing that is happening at thousands of businesses across the country.
It's meant to be. But they unwittingly raised a good point; why aren't the owners of the factory where the illegals worked in jail alongside them?
He is also a citizen of Guatemala.
Once they have some convictions they do... Remember, even those here illegal have the right to due process... Innocent until proven guilty... this is the point I was trying to make.
These arrests will help provide the evidence to go after the employer
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