Thread: Workers must show legal immigration status to stay employed

Restaurants brace for more worksite raids

Published April 08, 2017 Associated Press

NEW YORK – Workers at a famed New York bakery who face a deadline to produce immigration papers are instead defying the government in public — at President Donald Trump's Manhattan home.

The 31 employees of the Tom Cat Bakery will be fired and could be deported if they cannot prove by April 21 that they're working in the country legally.

They're rallying Saturday afternoon in front of Trump Tower.

The Department of Homeland Security set the deadline for the workers to show their employment documents.

Many have worked on the gourmet bakery's production line for much of its 30-year existence.

Tom Cat covers a whole city block in Queens, churning out artisanal bread 24 hours a day and delivering it around in the New York City area.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/08...efy-trump.html

Isn't is strange that immigration laws are the only ones I know of that one gets kudos for having broken them for a long period of time.?

They always tell how long a person has been breaking the law as if that should get them a free pass rather than their being declared engaging in an 'on going criminal enterprise'?

I can't wait until some defense attorney tells the jury to look at Joe Jones. He works as a burglar. He's a good family man. He coaches Little League. He's been burglarizing houses for 30 years. He shouldn't be punished.

Originally Posted by nntrixie

Isn't is strange that immigration laws are the only ones I know of that one gets kudos for having broken them for a long period of time.?

They always tell how long a person has been breaking the law as if that should get them a free pass rather than their being declared engaging in an 'on going criminal enterprise'?

I can't wait until some defense attorney tells the jury to look at Joe Jones. He works as a burglar. He's a good family man. He coaches Little League. He's been burglarizing houses for 30 years. He shouldn't be punished.

If Mr. Joe Jones overstayed his visa or came here illegally from Wales, I suppose it would be okay not to punish him (sarcasm).

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