This is part of the Immigration that is NOT getting enough attention. Work no American wants to do. Employers who hire under the table to skirt the law, cheat workers out of fair wages in order to make huge profits. Another form of SLAVERY.

I wouldn't bet my SS check that they were all undocumented. I'd guess ICE might have rounded up anyone who appeared Latinx. Still, your point is spot on.

Not every form or missing form, every mistake on each form. If it doesn't, we definitely have some answers to your questions.

At a minimum, minimum (!), the company should be facing a $6 million fine on this documentary infraction alone. That's before any other penalties that might apply are thrown in to the mix.

When I was an assistant manager at McDonald's. One of my jobs every month was to check the I9 form of every employee (including white bread me), because the person who did it before me didn't update the forms when drivers licenses expired etc. We got hit with a boat load of fines because the inspector loved to put it to McDonalds.

Would be a great revenue stream for the government if they went after the business owners (who would probably then push for an amnesty and green cards to protect their profits).

So, this owner should be getting killed with fines while facing all sorts of other economic pressures (inability to sell overseas thanks to tariff wars).

Doubt it will happen, but it should.

Republicans won't like their laws imposed on them.

Maybe this will soften them up about DACA and other kinds of immigration reform.

You don't have to recheck drivers' licenses when they expire for I-9 purposes.

Employers in many cases know the employees are unauthorized. So what? If the employee presents papers, which everyone knows are phony, photocopy them, end of story. No fine. It’s all a scam, everyone on all sides know it’s a scam. It would be easy to prevent this scam but no one wants to end it. Not the employee, not the employer, not elected representatives who understand these workers are actually good for the economy, good for legals too. So everybody just plays along with this game. I confess. I prepare payroll reports I know are phony. But are legal. I don’t want this system to change. This make believe world is better than the alternative. Where these workers don’t get hired.

Right now it's voluntary, which is ridiculous.

Yes, we can stop most employment of those here without authority, if we want to. But we have a huge shortage of low skill workers. That’s why everyone ignores solutions. We need to legally admit way more workers. From an economic point of view. We should combine that with compensation to those already here who get harmed. Job and wage security.

Republicans will protect their own. But if he is a Democratic donor, he's fooked.

the National Chicken Council, and surprise, surprise, it looks like they largely support Republicans.

National Chicken Council donors:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2018&cmte=C00034272

Recipients of $$$$ from the National Chicken Council:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2018&id=D000000568

The issue of extra-legal immigration could be solved with one simple law. (before proceeding, a note that I am not defending this position, merely noting it)
===Don't sanction those who are working illegally, but impose mandatory prison sentences and meaningful fines on the owners and managers at any facility found to have workers who are not working legally.
This approach would never be adopted by the conservatives because 1) it would punish the wealthy instead of the poor, and 2) it would wreck many aspects of our agricultural system, from harvesting to processing.

No eVerify, no deduction for that employee's wages on a personal or corporate tax return.

This could even be adopted by the states that have an income tax. The SCOTUS has already ruled that the states cannot make immigration law, but they can make tax law within their borders.

Because it destroyed the labor market for everyone.

Sad thing is Amnesty didn't work either.

The only real solution is hold employers accountable. They have no right to cheap and easily abused labor. It's the filthy rich who are making money off of this situation.

Then also I would look at some consistent humane refugee policies.

broters have paid over the decades for using undocumented workers - many times and millions. They've since become 'woke'.

There isn't a "meat processor" in Iowa or Nebraska that couldn't be raided and fined today, right now.

Its CEO is another billionaire named Joseph Grendys.

It was founded by a Fred Koch, but not that Fred Koch.

Maybe that says something about the chicken

From the AP report on the arrests:
https://apnews.com/bbcef8ddae4e4303983c91880559cf23

What are we going to do, sanction employers who are treating undocumented workers fairly (debatable, of course), making them all but unemployable, while starving them in Mexico and Central American countries by harsh trade policies.

the owner will not face any major repercussions.

This has been my argument for the last 40+ years. (I live in Texas.)

If Republicans wanted fix the immigration ‘problem’ they WOULD HAVE.
They have been in control of the Texas Legislation for DECADES.

The reason they don’t is so they have people that will work hard and they exploit
Them with low pay, unpaid overtime and few benefits.

It’s a Big Win for these business owners.

Just sayin'.

lolololololol ice is part of their employee retirement plan.

oh, but they are the job crerators . hem.

Six managers were indicted. A federal jury acquitted Tyson of having knowingly hired illegal immigrants.

If these companies thought all of these workers were legal, why were they probably paying them below minimum wage? You know that's what's going on. "We had NO idea they were illegal". BS

That's why the Republicans only talk a good game about illegal immigration.....they know exactly what their donors are doing.....because these owners know if any of the illegals raise a fuss, all they have to do is contact their Republican friends and get those people deported.

I'd like to see further penalties -- maybe.

But mostly I'd like to see an intelligent and legal arrangement that acknowledges what is: that Americans no longer do certain kinds of labor no matter how much you pay; that American plant managers have a chat with their Spanish-speaking leadmen and arrange for X number of seasonal workers to come in from the home village; that Y number will stay year-round. That's what IS. Legalize it.

In addition, acknowledge and plan for: decent housing, children, schools, medical care, ESL classes for adults, and other elements of a human life. PLAN for it. The people themselves will fill in the blanks: little grocery stores with foods they prefer, churches in their native language, barber shops, you name it.

But for the sake of all the gods, stop this insanity and inhumanity of treating Mexicans and Central Americans like political footballs generation after generation after generation. What is happening.
now is worse than ever and shames America to the core.

A North American Workers agreement.

What it would mean is that people could work while remaining citizens of their country, but they would be tracked, taxed, and subject to the local jurisdiction's labor laws.

Obviously, quite a lot would have to be hashed out there. But it's at least something to flesh out and think on when trying to ensure companies aren't using undocumented immigrants to undercut wage laws and taxes. Something to reign in the exploitation of the most vulnerable.

Because it's absolutely clear the federal government does not have a handle on the exploited immigrant worker problem.

God Bless U.S.A. socialist institutions.

In the old days industrialists who abused their workers to the point of organizing had to call the Pinkertons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_States