A Retired Border Patrol Agent Says Corrupt Company Officials Profiting Personally From Illegal Immigration; etc

From: Marlin Spike

Based on visits I have made to local poultry plants in Mississippi that fired their legal local employees so they could hire illegal aliens from Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, here’s how it works:

Upper level company officials agree to close their human resources section that deals with unskilled and minimum skilled workers.

The same company officers create their own "labor-supply company" and place a trusted legal alien as the up-front "owner." This person is responsible for recruiting, smuggling, housing, and training a steady supply of illegal alien laborers. He is also responsible for providing the aliens with the necessary false documents so he can fill out an I-9 form for each alien. The living accommodations usually consist of a group of houses owned by the company officials. Each alien is charged $20 per week to live with twenty or more aliens. They must also pay utilities, groceries and sundries.

The processing company employs whatever number of laborers it needs and pays the "labor-supply company" $8 an hour. The alien is told he will be paid $6 an hour.

The owner of the labor-supply company deducts from the alien's wages a fee for smuggling and the preparation of false documents.

The end result is that the alien ends up earning about $2 an hour. The company officers, on the other hand, collect thousands of dollars in assorted fees and charges to the aliens. This is done without any responsibility for the workers…no I-9, no withholding tax, no insurance and no social security. In fact there is no paper trail at all since offshore bank accounts handle the deposits.

This scenario is a violation of a multitude of federal and state laws. And it is as close to slave labor as you can get without actually having the auction.

Once, it was routine to raid poultry plants. Now, however, it is a major event.

I wonder why?

Spike retired in January 2005 after 35 years of service as a Border Patrol Agent and immigration inspector in Texas and the southeastern U.S.

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