Thread: MS - Ridgeland couple faces charges involving illegal aliens

Ridgeland couple faces charges involving illegal aliens

Updated: Nov 03, 2011 5:25 PM CDT

Paul and Barbara Love of Ridgeland were arraigned before U. S. Magistrate Linda Anderson Thursday on a multi-count indictment charging them and their company, Love Irrigation, with conspiracy, harboring illegal aliens, and encouraging illegal aliens to reside in the United States.

There were also charged with improper use of Social Security numbers and making false statements on immigration forms.

If convicted, Paul Love faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and/or a $1.25 million fine. Barbara Love faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and/or a $1.75 million fine.

Love Irrigation, Inc. faces a maximum fine of $1.5 million and up to five years probation.

The trial is scheduled for January 9, 2012 before U.S. District Chief Judge Henry T. Wingate in Jackson.
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There must be thousands like this couple out there. Even big food chains. Who's going after the big fish?

Irrigation company owners want delay of trial in illegal immigrant worker case

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: December 14, 2011 - 4:03 am
Last Updated: December 14, 2011 - 4:03 am


JACKSON, Miss. — An attorney has asked for a continuance in the trial of a couple charged with knowingly using illegal immigrants at their irrigation company in central Mississippi.

A federal indictment says Paul and Barbara Love used illegal immigrants as far back as 2003 at Love Irrigation Inc., based in Ridgeland.

The indictment says the Loves were told by immigration officials in 2008 that some of their employees were illegal immigrants. They allegedly continued using the illegal workers, but designated them as contract laborers, paid them in cash and picked them up from off-site locations.

They pleaded not guilty Nov. 3.

The Loves' attorney filed a motion Monday to postpone the January trial date so he could have more time to work on their defense.

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