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10-17-2015, 01:23 PM #1
N.C. Illegal Alien Faces 24 Felony Counts For Collecting A Paycheck
Undocumented Woman Faces 24 Felony Counts For Collecting A Paycheck
BY CARIMAH TOWNES OCT 17, 2015 9:00AM
CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCKMiriam Martinez Solais worked six to seven days a week, 12 hours at a time, at Vesuvio’s Pizza & Grill in Roxboro, North Carolina for six years. Yet she was only paid $400 a week. So after years of hard work, the 28-year-old woman quit and filed a complaint against her former employer with the North Carolina Department of Labor, claiming she was paid far below minimum wage and denied overtime compensation. The NCDOL and the federal Labor Department started investigating Vesuvio’s.
But what she thought would be a chance to be compensated for her hard work turned into a nightmare, when Vesuvio’s owner, Giovanni D’Abbusco, told her to drop the complaint because he “did not want anything to happen to her or her daughter,” according to Solais’ motion to dismiss.
Solais is an undocumented immigrant originally from Mexico. With the help of a private detective, D’Abbusco discovered that Solais was using the social security number of a California resident and called the Roxboro Police Department. Solais was arrested in January and thrown in jail for six days. She’s now facing a slew of felony charges: two counts of identity theft, as well as 22 counts of “obtaining property by false pretenses” — the “property” being her paycheck.
On Friday, a judge considered three motions from Solais’ attorneys to have the charges against her dismissed. As Solais’ defense argues, only the federal government can prosecute people for violating civil immigration laws. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that undocumented immigrants cannot be criminally prosecuted for offenses like using fake documents to work, except by federal authorities.
But that doesn’t mean local and state law enforcement have stopped wielding the criminal justice system against undocumented immigrants. Felony charges like identity theft are commonly used to target undocumented immigrants outside of the immigration system.
Two immigrants living in New Hampshire were arrested and charged with “criminal trespass” solely because they were living in the state without documentation.
Congress also helped by making certain identity and documentation offenses felonies in 1998. The legislation aimed to criminalize undocumented workers, allowing people like Solais who use faked documentation to secure work to be charged for criminal behavior.
North Carolina is one of many states that hopes to crack down on immigrants using local police forces. Within the next month, the governor of North Carolina is expected to sign a bill banningsanctuary cities, where local governments have decided to forbid their law enforcement from investigating or criminalizing people for their immigration status. If and when the law is signed, state police will have more leeway to target and prosecute immigrants.
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10-17-2015, 04:34 PM #2
She knew she was committing fraud, and she knew she was committing identity theft but thought that her excuse of the " unfair system made me do it" would get her off. No sympathy.
I wonder how the person whose identity she used fared with the IRS and credit bureaus?
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10-17-2015, 04:59 PM #3A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
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10-17-2015, 08:40 PM #4
Both, her and the employer, should be punished! The employer obviously broke labor laws and should be punished. I'm not without a heart, so I would be satisfied with the deportation of the woman and her daughter with the caveat that returning illegally would require mandatory prison time.
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10-18-2015, 04:38 PM #5
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