Thread: Fish Wholesalers Reeling After Immigration Raid

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Employees Fail To Show After Officials Haul Workers Away In Handcuffs

POSTED: 6:21 pm EST December 6, 2005
UPDATED: 7:47 pm EST December 6, 2005

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- Fish wholesalers estimate they lost about $100,000 in sales Tuesday because their employees are still afraid after immigration officials took some of those workers away in handcuffs on Monday.

Once the roundup started, workers ran into the building.

"It was kind of like a human tsunami," said Frank Ferreira of AML International. "They didn’t know if they were going to come in and arrest them, too."

According to Ferreira, the workers that fled did not come back to work on Tuesday.

Guatemalans and El Salvadorans make up a large part of the fish handling workers.

When asked what would happen if immigration officials were to perform raids on a daily basis and checked Ferreira said, "There wouldn’t be a fish industry. It would shut right down."

New Bedford Mayor-elect Scott Lang said the city needs assistance from the federal government and not just random enforcement.

"Take 13 people out of a fish house and then not see the federal government for two or three years, that doesn’t make any sense," Lang said.

"If the message now is if you are undocumented, you’re not going to work, then they better notify all of these employees and employers very quickly."

Lang said the influx of Central Americans could not be anticipated 10 years ago and now federal immigration policies could have a huge impact on the community.

Well, hire ya some AMERICANS!! Massachusetts citizens aren't afraid of that fish smell; they aren't afraid of hard work, hire some Americans to replace your illegal foreign workers and then you'll be upstanding American businesses; sleep better at night; be helping your fellow Americans; and won't have to worry about them running into the building every time a government official shows up.

It's win-win-win-win.

"If the message now is if you are undocumented, you’re not going to work, then they better notify all of these employees and employers very quickly."

NOTIFY THEM QUICKLY???? Is this man on another PLANET?? Did he not realize that this is the LAW??? Why would he think that employers and employees should be NOTIFIED??? Seems to me like they have had all the notice they need for YEARS. If they are ILLEGAL, both the employer and the employee are simply BREAKING THE LAW.

AND WE'RE GOING TO SEND THEM TO JAIL!

BOTH OF THEM! I think the best idea that has been mentioned is to deport ALL OF THEM--both the EMPLOYEE and the EMPLOYER! Let them see how they fare in a third-world country.

Fish wholesalers estimate they lost about $100,000

Whaa whaa whaa! Hit them in the pocketbook where it counts.

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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- Fish wholesalers estimate they lost about $100,000 in sales Tuesday because their employees are still afraid after immigration officials took some of those workers away in handcuffs on Monday.

[b]IS ANYONE AT THE I.R.S. PAYING ATTENTION!? THAT'S AML INTERNATIONAL.