Posted on 08/06/2020 11:46:44 PM PDT by Farcesensitive
Close to 700 immigrants working in the U.S. illegally were detained last year during what federal prosecutors have called the largest single-state worksite enforcement operation in our nations history.
Now four higher-ups at the Mississippi chicken plants where they were employed face criminal charges.
The U.S. District Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Mississippi unsealed indictments Thursday against two supervisors at A&B Foods Inc. as well as a human resources manager and plant manager at Pearl River Foods Inc.. They are accused of hiring undocumented workers and lying to law enforcement, according to a news release.
This office has a successful history of prosecuting employers for violating our immigration laws, and today marks another step in ensuring that justice is fairly and impartially done, no matter the law-breaker, U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst said in the release.
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“Good. Throw the book at them, and the owners of the plants, too. Long sentences for willfully employing illegals will help curtail this epidemic.”
Amen!
ICE has a toll free number for reporting this.
1-866-DHS-2ICE.
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Prosecuting employers for violating our immigration law.
They should do that in California it clear out about 1/3 of the work force.
I don’t know. We should’ve been going after this insanity from day #1. This is virtually de facto slave labor, anyway. They may be paid, but not being citizens, they can be used and abused however the employers see fit without protections.
For all the folks here who thinks ex-Arkansas Governor Huckster is such great shakes, he was fine with flooding his state with illegals to keep the Tyson Chicken plants up and running.
The Pearl River Delta region of China has the 13th largest GDP in the world
Now leak the news of impending raids on other meat/chicken plants and watch the workers flee.
Aha, not Chicoms; good to know.
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