Thread: Immigration agents arrest 114 in sting at Ohio landscaper

We have a local ICE office---and there is a tip line. They made news last year when Sessions was here. It's been very quiet since then, so I don't know what they are up to. My neighbors are (or have been) big illegal aliens supporters, but they seem to have cooled it, gradually. They know I don't like it---the last I saw was a landscaping co. that visits on Saturday and I haven't noticed them recently. I reported a suspected MS 13 member last winter and also called the municipal gang enforcement. They thanked me for the input.

But you never know with law enforcement agencies. They may take a tip, but then put it on hold because they might be after something bigger.

"No criminal charges have been filed against Corso's, but the employer is under investigation, authorities said."

Then file the charges. Throwing a few CEOs in prison for hiring illegals will do more good than arresting hundreds of illegal workers.

Four workers arrested in Sandusky raid face criminal immigration charges

Updated Aug 11, 6:36 AM; Posted Aug 10

Gallery: Ohio immigration employer sting

By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A grand jury indicted four people on immigration related charges this week following their arrests in a large-scale raid at a garden and landscaping company in Erie County in June.
David Delgado-Salazar,
Nora Raquel Galvez-Roblero, Anita Marin-Arres and Misael Vargas-Samano face charges of fraud and misuse of visas and other documents. All the defendant except Galvez-Roblero also face a false statements charge.

The four, along with 110 others, were arrested June 5 when 200 agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies descended upon Corso's Flower & Garden Center locations in Sandusky and Castalia. While there, agents enacted search warrants and detained people they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally.

The raid was one of the largest in U.S. history, though it was topped later the same month when authorities conducted another one at locations owned by Fresh Mark, a meat supplier, in Salem and the Canton area.

In all, 146 workers were arrested at Fresh Mark, all suspected of being in the country illegally.

The people arrested largely hailed from Guatemala.

The four indicted Wednesday all hail from Latin American countries and are accused of using fraudulent identification paperwork while in the U.S.

Court records say Marin-Arres got her fraudulent paperwork from Martha Buendia-Chavarria.

Buendia-Chavarria pleaded guilty on June 15 to federal charges related to creating and procuring fraudulent documentation. She is set to be sentenced on Oct. 9.

About 10 other workers have faced criminal charges stemming from the Corso's raids.


The raids in Ohio came as President Donald Trump and his administration's aggressive policies on immigration have come to the forefront.

His administration's "zero tolerance" policy on people crossing the country's southern border led to an outcry because of reports of children being separated from their parents and being detained.

The president, following a public-relations pummeling, issued an executive order that stops the family separation, but he has continued to make statements about the dangers of many immigrants and that he still wants to strictly enforce border security.

Federal prosecutors in northern Ohio ramped up enforcement of federal immigration laws. U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman's office has brought more immigration-related indictments in the past year than in the previous few years.

Corso's has said it was not aware any employees were using falsified documents to gain employment. Fresh Mark has said nothing about the investigation other than referring reporters to federal authorities, though records show it has a history of hiring people suspected of being in the country illegally.

https://www.cleveland.com/court-just..._in_sandu.html

Eight Mexican nationals arrested in Sandusky immigration raid face illegal re-entry charges

Updated Jun 24; Posted Jun 22

Gallery: Ohio immigration employer sting
By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A federal grand jury indicted eight people arrested in a large raid at a Sandusky garden and landscaping company with illegally re-entering the United States.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says in a news release Friday that all eight are citizens of Mexico and were previously deported. One man, Cuberto Gallardo-Trujillo, was deported in 1994 and 2003 and previously convicted for delivering cocaine, court records show. Another man, Josefino Alvaro Leon-Herrera, also has a marijuana trafficking conviction and was removed twice in 2003 at ports-of-entry in Texas, prosecutors say.

The eight, along with 106 others, were arrested June 5 when 200 agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies descended upon Corso's Flower & Garden Center locations in Sandusky and Castalia. While there, agents enacted search warrants and detained people they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally.
The raid was one of the largest in U.S. history, though it was topped this week when authorities conducted another one at locations owned by Fresh Mark, a meat supplier, in Salem and the Canton area.

In all, 146 workers were arrested Tuesday, all suspected of being in the country illegally. The people arrested largely hailed from Guatemala.

Authorities have confirmed investigations are under way into Corso's and Fresh Mark. The latter has been enrolled for more than a decade in a voluntary ICE program aimed at ensuring companies hire lawful employees.

ICE is also working with prosecutors to potentially bring cases against the people rounded up from Fresh Mark, should any have previously been deported or stolen someone's identity, ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls said Friday.

This month's raids in Ohio come as President Donald Trump and his administration's aggressive policies on immigration have come to the forefront.

In addition to ICE agents conducting large-scale roundups before initiating deportation proceedings against many from Latin America, Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' "zero tolerance" policy on people crossing the country's southern border has led to an outcry because of reports of children being separated from their parents. There have also been reports of children being housed in facilities that, while not exactly jails, share some striking similarities.

The president, following a public-relations pummeling, issued an executive order Wednesday that stops the family separation. He has said he still wants to strictly enforce border security.

Ohio's raids have lent to a sense of uneasiness in Latino communities, especially as ICE's show of force has come to their own backyards.

"Don't let anybody tell you this is about enforcing the law," Veronica Dahlberg, executive director of Latino advocacy group HOLA Ohio, said Tuesday after the Fresh Mark raids. "This is about decimating the Latino community."

Many of the men from this month's raids were taken to the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, while many of the women from the June 5 raid are being housed in a facility in Battle Creek, Michigan. Women detained Tuesday are in a facility in Geauga County, Walls said.

One woman from the Sandusky raid has been deported, Walls said. Several workers from both raids were released for health and family, ICE says.

Corso's has said it was not aware any employees were using falsified documents to gain employment. Fresh Mark has said nothing about the investigation other than referring reporters to federal authorities, though records show it has a history of hiring people suspected of being in the country illegally.

https://www.cleveland.com/court-just...ls_arrest.html

Also in Ohio:

ICE arrests more than 100 workers in raid on Ohio meat supplier

Put them in Alcatraz for 6 months then deport them!