Thread: N.Y.: FARM RAID NETS 21 SUSPECTED ILLEGALS

FARM RAID NETS 21 SUSPECTED ILLEGALS

may 24, 2007
By SARAH McCROBIE, Staff Writer
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials stepped onto the Zappala Farm in Granby on Wednesday, they had a search warrant to arrest one farm worker. Instead, they took away 21 Hispanic fieldworkers.

According to Cathy Zappala, owner of the farm, federal immigration agents stormed the farm looking for one worker who they say was illegal, and ended up “pulling workers off the van, throw(ing) them to the ground, and tying their hands behind their backs,â€

[quote]“I have paperwork for all of these people... They’re nice honest people that just want to make an honest living.â€

If she had paper work for them why did she not show it to them!

Must be just to simple, its ok our congress doesn't comprehend easy either, they like to take the rough and deceitful road to everything!


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My understanding is that with that visa program, they have to provide housing for workers, as well as medical care and a decent wage (I heard $9 per hour, but I would need to verify that.) Of course, if you pay the laborers $5 or $6 per hour and no benefits, your labor costs are cheap. So, she wants to take the cheap road! Well, tough cookies!

Ostrich

ICE AGENTS CAME FOR ONE ILLEGAL, BUT FOUND MANY
By SARAH McCROBIE, Staff Writer

Twenty-two migrant farm workers remain in detention after officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested the Mexican workers Wednesday in Granby.

Originally, ICE agents intended to arrest one man for allegedly being in the country illegally. However, according to Mike Gilhooly, a public information official with ICE, when agents pulled over a van on Muck Drive thinking that the person named in the arrest warrant would be there, they discovered 16 people who they determined were illegal.

“According to the supervisor... after interviewing each of the suspects... all of the original 16 admitted that they were here illegally,â€