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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.
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.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)If a holes like these stop hiring, they will stop coming.
LuvLoogie
(6,855 posts)All they have to do is set a cost limit.
Igel
(35,197 posts)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)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.