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    Hundreds arrested in Mississippi raid
    Written by Edie R. Lambert
    Thursday, 11 September 2008
    At 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 26, federal agents raided a manufacturing plant in southeastern Mississippi, rounding up 595 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.
    In a statement issued that day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that those arrested at Howard Industries had been interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed by ICE agents and processed for removal from the United States. About 475 were transported to a federal detention center in Jena, La., to await a hearing before an immigration judge, probably in late September.
    A public health service medically screened and interviewed detainees. As a result, 106 of them were released through “alternative detention based on humanitarian reasons.â€
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    Published September 19, 2008 09:43 am - Howard Industries is going to pay former employees for time worked before the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid Aug. 25.

    HI to pay suspected illegal immigrants

    By Jason Niblett, newseditor@laurelleadercall.com


    Howard Industries is going to pay former employees for time worked before the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid Aug. 25.

    The company released a written statement Thursday, saying federal laws are being followed that provide for payroll issues.

    “For several weeks, Howard Industries has actively attempted to forward the paychecks of its former employees to their rightful owners,â€
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    Cintra seems like an ambulance chaser. The company is already working with the Dept of Labor. Your no big hero lady.
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    The company should pay the depotation costs $6000.00 per IA
    court costs and Ice expenses another 2.5 mil
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    The government will say, "oh we did not think of that in time."
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    Laurel 09/19/08Families and workers demand payment from Howard Industries

    Posted: Sep 19, 2008 08:03 PM PDT

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    Some 200 family members along with representatives from the Mississippi Immigration Rights Alliance are demanding employees detained in last months raid at Howard Industries get paid.
    Nearly 600 workers were detained in the August 25th raid in Laurel. Now, family members say they have not been paid for work done up until that time.

    According to Howard Industries, the company has tried to forward the paychecks of former employees to the rightful owners.

    They also say they're working with the U.S. Department of Labor to turn the checks over to the government, which will deliver them to the owners.

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    Howard executives' computers among items seized in raid

    Emma James and Earlesha Butler
    Hattiesburg American

    HATTIESBURG - Federal agents who raided Howard Industries last month seized 23 computers, including those of the CEO and the president, as well as copious records of payroll, employee earnings and unclaimed wages, two search warrants reveal.

    The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on the Laurel facility on Aug. 25 resulted in the arrest of 595 alleged illegal workers - the largest raid of its kind.

    Filed on Sept. 15 at U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg, the two search warrants detail what ICE agents were cleared to seize in the raid, as well as an inventory of what they took from Howard corporate offices in Ellisville and at its plant in Laurel.

    The records seized include:


    Form 941 - Employer quarterly federal tax returns for 2007 and 2008.


    I-9 (employment verification forms) and miscellaneous employment hiring documents for Howard employees.


    Employee earnings reports for July and August 2008.



    An active employee roster with addresses dated August 2008.


    Unclaimed wages and checks for 2007 and 2008.


    46 CDs with miscellaneous payroll information.

    The warrant for the Laurel facility said agents took 14 boxes of miscellaneous documents as well as computer data from computers belonging to Howard Chief Executive Officer Billy Howard, President Michael Howard and employees Linda Howard, Scott Rawls, Pam Braddock and Kyle Stringer, among others.

    A third warrant for the Laurel facility was sealed and not available to the public.

    Calls to Howard Industries and Howard attorney Dick Yoder were not returned Friday.

    ICE officials took questions Friday but were not able to answer them.

    "Our investigation is still ongoing," ICE spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said.

    "We would have to clear that information with investigators to ensure that no information is released that might compromise the investigation."

    In addition to all employment documentation and information on current and past employees, the warrants granted permission for ICE agents to search for "any and all records and documents advertising for employment and the transportation of potential employees from other parts of the State of Mississippi, the United States, or a foreign country, to the United States, the State of Mississippi, or Laurel, Mississippi, for possible employment at Howard Industries."

    The warrants also included the clearance to take documents or records relating to any action, including the manufacture, alteration or counterfeiting of identification documents at Howard Industries.

    Of the 595 workers arrested, ICE deported 43 this week while 423 others are being held in the LaSalle Detention Facility in Jena, La., waiting for immigration hearings.

    An additional 100 are in alternative detention - mothers who were fitted with ankle monitors and ordered to report for hearings.

    A ninth detainee who was arrested was denied bond Friday during a preliminary and detention hearing in U.S. District Court.

    Federal prosecutors said Friday that Tomas Juarez-Perez of Laurel used fraudulent resident alien and Social Security cards, along with an I-9 employment verification form to gain employment at Howard Industries.

    Prosecutors said Juarez-Perez used the alias of Jose Rodriguez to earn employment at the company.

    Meanwhile, federal Public Defender John Weber III, who represents Juarez-Perez, said the aggravated identity theft charges came after an immigration judge ordered on Sept. 10 that Juarez-Perez be deported to Mexico.

    U.S. Magistrate Judge Mike Parker ordered Juarez-Perez to remain held without bond. Parker said Juarez-Perez's ability to acquire fake identification cards made him a "substantial risk of flight."

    "Based on the documents offered into evidence ... none of the documents are lawfully his clearly," Parker said.

    Officials would not say where the detainee was being held.

    Juarez-Perez's wife of a year and a half, Juilia Gonzalez, said her husband knowingly used fake ID cards because "it was the only way to get money for his seven kids" in Mexico.

    Gonzalez, an American citizen, said Juarez-Perez had been in the U.S. nine years and never attempted to gain U.S. citizenship.

    "He's a good person. He just worked for his kids," she said. "That's the only thing he did wrong."

    Juarez-Perez is the ninth Howard Industry suspected illegal worker prosecutors brought aggravated identity theft charges against.

    The eight other detainees were indicted Sept. 10 by a federal grand jury on three separate counts, including aggravated identity theft, fraud or misuse of identification documents and misuse of a Social Security number.

    If convicted of aggravated identity theft, all nine could face more than two years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine, with another year of supervised release.


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    I like the way you BOLD the significant parts of the article jimpasz.

    Makes reading a little faster if you don't have the time.
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    Howard to pay family of detained workers
    Howard Industries is set to release about 200 paychecks to family members of workers detained in an August 25 immigration raid.
    Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance attorney Patricia Ice told a crowd composed primarily of family members Sunday that an agreement had been reached with Howard Industries lawyers to release the checks to the families.

    Nearly 600 workers at Howard Industries' transformer factory in Laurel were rounded up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Two others left the country voluntarily.

    Most of those who haven't been deported are being held in a Louisiana detention facility awaiting hearings. Nine people face federal charges related to identity theft, according to court records.
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