Thread: Jury finds SD man guilty of hiring illegal workers

Jury finds SD man guilty of hiring illegal workers
Associated Press
3:32 PM CST, December 8, 2008

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A South Dakota man is facing a possible 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of hiring illegal workers.

A jury found 55-year-old Donald Stangeland, of Flandreau, S.D., guilty of one count of transporting an illegal immigrant and two counts of harboring illegal immigrants last week in U.S. District Court in Sioux City.

Prosecutors say Stangeland hired illegal immigrants to build grain bins in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota in 2007, knowing the workers were in the U.S. illegally.

Prosecutors say Stangeland never asked the workers to fill out required forms for employment identification and did not ask for valid ID or proof of work eligibility.


Stangeland remains free on bond pending sentencing, which was not immediately scheduled.

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Now they need to get the rest of these employers out there that knowingly hire illegal workers.

This is news only because it's so rare, undercut companys that play by the rules and you should go to jail.