Thread: FL: Two sentenced for helping illegal immigrants work in TCo

Two sentenced for helping illegal immigrants work in TCoast
By Sarah Prohaska

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Monday, April 02, 2007

Two Polish citizens who admitted to helping illegal immigrants work on the Treasure Coast will both spend time in federal prison.

Jan Dziarski, 52, whom prosecutors say ran a local "franchise" of a much larger operation based in Orlando, was sentenced to 37 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

His former girlfriend, Magdalena Grabowiecka, 32, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.

Officials said both will be subject to deportation proceedings after they serve their sentences.

Prosecutors said Dziarski, who also is a Canadian citizen, helped illegal immigrants gets hired and provided them with housing and transportation.

In exchange, he took part of their paychecks, they said.

Grabowiecka provided transportation for the illegal workers.

Attorneys for both defendants said this was their first brush with the law and they had accepted responsibility.

Dziarski's attorney argued he had no decision making authority in the operation, and he did not recruit illegal immigrants.

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Why does it seem that the ones caught who end up doing jail time for helping illegals get jobs etc. are usually non Hispanic? We have this case, there was another involving a circus and eastern European immigrants and there was another case involving Chinese people who had a restaurant. Let's face non Hispanics are the minority when it comes to illegals yet they not only get caught but get harsher sentences.

helped illegal immigrants gets hired and provided them with housing and transportation.

There are hundreds of Hispanic groups that do nothing else and Swatchick you are right, the NON-Hispanics seem to get the book throw at them. I think they do this on purpose so they can point to it when they are accused of discrimination.