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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:09 PM Aug 2020

ICE detained hundreds of Mississippi chicken plant workers. Now managers are charged

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 nation’s history.”

Now four higher-ups at the Mississippi chicken plants where they were employed face criminal charges.

The U.S. District Attorney’s 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.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-detained-hundreds-mississippi-chicken-205930122.html

About a year late. Let's see if their prosecution has any teeth.

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ICE detained hundreds of Mississippi chicken plant workers. Now managers are charged (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
undocumented immigration is a matter of demand not supply... Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
And the owners of the plant? LuvLoogie Aug 2020 #2
Plausible deniability is a thing. Igel Aug 2020 #4
Trump can tell the unemployed coal miners he has found jobs for them. keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #3

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. undocumented immigration is a matter of demand not supply...
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:20 PM
Aug 2020

If a holes like these stop hiring, they will stop coming.

Igel

(35,197 posts)
4. Plausible deniability is a thing.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:57 AM
Aug 2020

It's not hiring an unauthorized worker that's illegal.

It's knowingly hiring an unauthorized worker that's illegal.

The difference is the law.

The prosecutor needs to show that those doing the hiring either knew or were negligent in not knowing that the workers were unauthorized. That's not always easy.

But again, that's the law.

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
3. Trump can tell the unemployed coal miners he has found jobs for them.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 10:19 PM
Aug 2020

Trump can tell the unemployed coal miners he has found jobs for them.

Unless they would rather not work and live off the gov't.

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