Thread: ND: Officials say 13 arrested at dairy were illegal immigran

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Officials say 13 arrested at dairy were illegal immigrants

The Associated Press - Wednesday, April 11, 2007
TOWNER, N.D.

Immigration officials say 13 employees at a dairy here have been arrested on charges of being in the country illegally.

Those arrested Tuesday included 12 men and one woman, said Tim Counts, a spokesman for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. One of the workers is from Guatemala and the rest are from Mexico, he said.

Officers took the group to the Border Patrol station in Bottineau pending a hearing on whether they will be deported.

The men will be held in area county jails awaiting possible bail, Counts said. The woman was released for child care but still must appear at a hearing, he said.

Mike Zimmerman, who operates the Sandhills Dairy, said he believed the workers' paperwork was in order when they were hired.

Zimmerman said immigration agents, accompanied by Highway Patrol and McHenry County Sheriff officers, arrived about 8 a.m. Tuesday to block traffic in and out of the dairy and halt milking operations.

He estimated about 50 officers were on the scene. He said they displayed weapons, kicked down doors and handcuffed his son and employees. Officers also handcuffed a longtime friend of his, held a gun to his head and asked for his birth certificate, he said.

"It's an unbelievable, frustrating and humiliating experience," Zimmerman said. "There's certainly another way to go about getting what they were after than to do something like this."

Counts said the officers were acting on a criminal search warrant based on leads in an ongoing investigation.

"It's important to remember that ICE and its law enforcement partners were executing a federal criminal search warrant issued by a federal magistrate judge," he said. "The actions of our agents, and of every law enforcement officer involved, were appropriate and fully within the law."

Zimmerman said the dairy milks 700 cows three times a day and the raid left him short of workers. He said he may have to start selling off his herd.

Zimmerman said the dairy milks 700 cows three times a day and the raid left him short of workers. He said he may have to start selling off his herd.

Please don't play DUMB, mr. zimmerman.
I have seen, with my own eyes, the ILLEGAL ALIENS that those in Idaho have been employing for generations. I have seen where you used to house them.

So, mr. dairyman, please don't play DUMB. It makes you look like a greedy, liar.

'Mike Zimmerman, who operates the Sandhills Dairy, said he believed the workers' paperwork was in order when they were hired."
Wink Wink and chocolate milk comes from brown cows

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

Zimmerman said the dairy milks 700 cows three times a day and the raid left him short of workers. He said he may have to start selling off his herd.

Please don't play DUMB, mr. zimmerman.
I have seen, with my own eyes, the ILLEGAL ALIENS that those in Idaho have been employing for generations. I have seen where you used to house them.

So, mr. dairyman, please don't play DUMB. It makes you look like a greedy, liar.

Right, like regular market forces don't work any more?
Pay better wages you get American workers, oh but then you have to do federal withholdings etc.., this guys just a lazy, greedy bum.

"It's an unbelievable, frustrating and humiliating experience," Zimmerman said. "There's certainly another way to go about getting what they were after than to do something like this."

Hey zimmerman, there's another way for you to go about getting workers too, and what you're doing to America and Americans is an unbelievable, frustrating and humiliating experience too, you traitor! And if you're milking 700 cows three times a day, you can afford to either hire Americans at a living wage or get rid of the damn cows!

Officers took the group to the Border Patrol station in Bottineau pending a hearing on whether they will be deported.

"whether they will be deported". Why does this sound like being deported is an iffy situation?

"It's an unbelievable, frustrating and humiliating experience," Zimmerman said.

Good! That's exactly what it should be.

Immigration officials dispute allegations of dairy operator...
Apr 11 2007 3:03PM
Associated Press
Immigration officials dispute allegations of dairy operator

TOWNER, N.D. (AP) A federal immigration spokesman says agents
never held a gun to anyone's head during a raid on a Towner dairy
farm yesterday.

Tim Counts is a spokesman for federal Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency. He says 12 men and one woman were arrested on
charges of being in the country illegally.

The operator of the Sandhills Dairy, Mike Zimmerman, accuses the
arresting officers of breaking down doors, drawing guns,
handcuffing his son and holding a gun to his friend's head.

Counts says that's a preposterous allegation. He says the
officers were acting on a criminal search warrant in an ongoing
investigation and their actions were, in his words, "appropriate
and fully within the law."
Zimmerman says he thought those working for him had the proper
papers. He says he does not have enough help now to care for his
700 cows and may have to sell off his herd.

Counts says one of those arrested was from Guatemala and the
rest were from Mexico. He says they were taken to a Border Patrol
station in Bottineau and are awaiting deportation hearings.

U-S Attorney Drew Wrigley plans a news conference later this
afternoon in Fargo to discuss the case.

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Those policeman or officials that were there, should have checked to make sure someone was there to help with the milking of the cows. Maybe they should have called the humane society. The cows shouldn't have to suffer. [/b]

Officials say 13 arrested at dairy were illegal immigrants

"America reports to deport",
Looks like it works
I hope more people report and many many more job stealers are are on the path tto deportation

the raid left him short of workers. He said he may have to start selling off his herd.

Cry baby should have had American workers from the get go