Posted on 03/15/2003 8:52:50 AM PST by archy
It's prison for leader of illegal labor ring
By Bill Dries
dries@gomemphis.com
March 15, 2003
San Antonio, Texas, labor contractor David Cantu Jr. was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for heading a scheme to bring 150 illegal aliens to work on FedEx Corp.'s world headquarters at Hacks Cross and Winchester.
U.S. Dist. Court Judge Hardy Mays also ordered Cantu, owner and managing partner of Brother's Construction II, to pay more than $860,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and to forfeit another $10 million.
Asst. U.S. Atty. Linda Nettles Harris said the restitution represents payroll taxes that should have been paid by the illegal workers.
"I think that this sentence sends a message that the use of illegal aliens will not be tolerated," Harris said.
Cantu, who pleaded guilty in December to charges of conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, money laundering and failure to file payroll taxes, brought 150 illegal aliens to Memphis from October 1998 to April 2000. Cantu also paid the rent on numerous apartments where the aliens stayed.
The men were hired as drywall workers on the $250 million FedEx construction project.
Cantu told the general contractor on the project that the laborers were independent contractors.
"He did that to evade taxes," Harris said.
A federal investigation began when the Immigration and Naturalization Service raided the construction site and four apartment complexes in February 2000, arresting180 illegal aliens.
- Bill Dries: 529-2643
They government has failed miserably.
Many believe that they have no intention of securing our borders, and this titanic invasion of millions is no accident...
Our borders are now a national disgrace, and a national security time bomb.
Yes, anything to do with this invasion of millions is quickly ignored by the party boys and others that put their little party before country.
There is no bigger threat to this country than have millions of people here illegally, from Lord know where..comitting wide scale fraud, choking off our social services, committing crimes on our people, etc etc.
It's an absolute national disgrace, and should be treated as breaking news, that is affecting every single one of us, every day......As this crisis continues to escalate.
This may be a pretty common practice.
The majority of the residents of the island of Puerto Rico can't speak English even after billions of U.S Taxpayer's Dept. of Education dollars have been squandered on them.
The Puerto Ricans you know stateside don't count. They don't get to vote on Puerto Rico's status.
This is a good thing. Puerto Rico would make an extremely lousy, Liberal state.
The news that the military was finally being ordered to the borders would probably be pulled out of 'breaking news'. ;^)
Just so. The Herrera organization is clearing out some competition and consolidating the previously seperate marijuana and cocaine business, which formerly operated at different levels as a security measure. Now that they enjoy governmental protection from political figures on both sides of the border, they can consolodate their previously compartmentalized operations and go for more volume.
I suppose the feeling is that if they can't be the OPEC of the business, they can at least try to run it as a monopoly.
-archy-/-
I haven't been able to find that plank in the current Republican Party platform. Maybe you can help me.
It would be great to be able to link anti-illegal immigration Latinos to that plank to show them that the Republican Party is the party for them.
I guess the transitioning of CA from a basically Republican state to a firmly Democrat/Socialist state in recent years, largely because of illegal immigration, is no big deal either. At least it seems so to that 3%. Go Figure.
I can say I want a 80% tax cut, the repeal of all anti-gun legislation and the wholesale elimination of the federal welfare state and it is all for naught if this tidal wave of 3rd World immigration is not turned back soon.
Common Sense is becoming a rare thing today even in some conservative circles.
If we don't get immigration under control soon, the wheels are coming off and we'll never get them back on.
That's the way I see it. You can say good bye to every single fervently held conservative principle if immigration is not radically curtailed--like right now. Sadly, it may already be too late. The takers are beginning to out number the producers in America and their growth rate is parabolic. Seems that our leaders want a new beholden under class that demands an ever-greater expansion of the federal welfare state.
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