Thread: Illegal Aliens Arrested in Slaughterhouse ICE Raid to be Deported, Owner Faces Jail

Illegal Aliens Arrested in Slaughterhouse ICE Raid to be Deported, Owner Faces Jail Time

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19 Sep 201810

At least four illegal alien workers at a Tennessee slaughterhouse will likely be deported after they were sentenced, while their employer is set to face jail time.

Illegal aliens Evelio Alejandro Bravo-Arreaga, Fidel Silva-Silva, Antonio Garcia-Martin, and Mateo Gomez-Pablo were sentenced this week following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at Southeastern Provision in April, as Breitbart News reported.

Each of the illegal aliens is likely to be deported, as they were sentenced to time served and given a year of court-ordered supervision, WATE ABC6 reported.

Southeastern Provision, 1617 Helton Rd, Bean Station, TN. Credit: Google Maps

Additionally, the owner of the slaughterhouse, 51-year-old James Brantley, is facing jail time for employing illegal aliens, along with allegedly committing wire fraud and tax fraud. Brantley is facing a maximum of 20 years in prison.

Federal immigration agents discovered the illegal alien hiring scheme at the slaughterhouse after being contacted by bank employees who said that large amounts of cash where regularly being withdrawn by Southeastern Provisions’ employees.

The bank employees said Brantley and his family members were withdrawing huge sums of cash to pay the illegal alien workers. About $25 million worth of cash was taken out of the bank account by Brantley since 2008. He said, at the time, the money was used to pay employees.

In total, the massive ICE raid led to 97 arrests, including ten illegal aliens arrested on federal charges and one illegal alien who was arrested on state charges. Of the remaining 86 illegal aliens, 54 were detained by ICE and 32 were eventually released.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ens-employing/

Two former Southeastern Provision employees sentenced to time served

So after all of that, 97 illegal aliens, only 4 deported.

Why is that? Why weren't all 97 and their families deported?

Originally Posted by Judy

So after all of that, 97 illegal aliens, only 4 deported.

Why is that? Why weren't all 97 and their families deported?

Exactly! These raids and deportations under Trump are still far less than what he promised us on the campaign trail. They probably only deported the ones with known felony arrest records in the US is my best guess.

The system we have isn't working. It makes no sense at all to waste days of investigations, days of raids, days of processing, days of prosecutions to catch 97 illegal aliens and only deport ... 4. That's nuts. Maybe they could only deport the 4 because they already had prior immigration violations so they could be deported without a hearing, maybe the others are all in line waiting for a deportation hearing with DOJ. If so, that will be .... years. GRRRRRR!!

DOJ is not the right department to be in charge of deportations, this function needs to be moved back to DHS and this is a crucial high priority. Makes no sense to fund all this work by DHS to only result in 4 deportations because DOJ has a 7 to 8 year back-log in deportation hearings.