Thread: Feds Plan Nationwide Operation Targeting Food Service Chain Over Undocumented Workers

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Feds Plan Nationwide Operation Targeting Food Service Chain Over Undocumented Workers

The forthcoming ICE operation is the surest sign to date that the Trump administration is ramping up ‘worksite enforcement.’

11.21.17 11:40 AM ET



Federal agents are planning to conduct a major worksite enforcement operation at a national food service chain in the coming weeks, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) document reviewed by The Daily Beast.

The current plan is focused on employers who exploit undocumented workers by illegally paying them below the minimum wage. The operation will target locations around the country and will likely result in charges of “harboring illegal aliens,” according to an ICE official.

“These people are basically being used as slave labor,” said the official, who spoke to The Daily Beast anonymously because he was not permitted to discuss impending operations on the record.

The plans detailed in the document are the strongest indication to date that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are increasing what’s called “worksite enforcement”—meaning, efforts to prosecute people who employ undocumented immigrants. As with all complex law enforcement operations, there’s a chance this one is altered or even scuttled. If it does go according to plan, however, it will be the first major worksite enforcement action of an administration that has promised to prioritize this core ICE mission.

The food service industry is a particularly ripe target, with The Migration Policy Institute estimating that about 9 percent of food service workers in the U.S. are undocumented.

According to the plans, the operation will focus on franchise owners who exploit undocumented workers. The agency has already done preliminary investigations and picked targets, The Daily Beast has learned.

ICE is divided into two components: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), which arrests and detains undocumented immigrants, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which investigates crimes related to customs and migration. HSI agents handle a host of issues, including art forgery, child exploitation, and drug crop eradication. They will also be helming this coming operation.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-p...mented-workers

The Migration Policy Institute estimating that about 9 percent of food service workers in the U.S. are undocumented.

Excuse me - 9% - more like 90% - they think they died and went to heaven at our wages considering minimum wage in mexico is @$4.50hr. And when they sardine into rental properties they pay $100 or less a month for rent - are any American citizens able to live so cheaply????

Get them outta here anyway. The costs of their crimes, anchor babies etc is in the mega billions. And the facts are we have immigration rules and regulations that they and their employers, landlords are violating.

Give these jobs to our homeless, our low skilled unemployed, our youths & citizens interested in the restaurant business; they can be our future chefs, restaurant owners -our unemployment figures directly relate to the numbers of illegals employed - EMPLOY AMERICANS INSTEAD!

Their "cheap labor" will NOT be worth it when the FINES start hitting their pocketbooks!

FINE THEM TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW

TAXPAYERS ARE SICK AND DAMN TIRED OF PICKING UP THE TAB FOR YOUR CHEAP DISEASE INFECTED BREEDING THIEVING ILLEGAL ALIEN LABOR!!!

Great, by writing this article, The Daily Beast is giving these employers a heads up about what is about to happen. This article should have been written after the bust, not before so it can serve as a warning to these criminal employers so they can have a chance to hide these people.

Originally Posted by artist

Excuse me - 9% - more like 90% - they think they died and went to heaven at our wages considering minimum wage in mexico is @$4.50hr.

I think it's $4.50 a day. JohnDoe2 posted on article on it here.... https://www.alipac.us/f12/mexico-rai...70-day-352806/

Guess that is more like 45cents an hour....

THERE IS NOW MORE TO THE ARTICLE AT THAT LINK.
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The operation will build on previous work.
On April 27, 2015, Farrukh Baig—who owned and operated 14 7-Eleven stores—pleaded guilty to wire fraud and to “concealing and harboring illegal aliens,” according to the Justice Department. According to court documents, Baig and several co-conspirators hired more than 100 undocumented immigrants to work in his stores. He then used the stolen identities of Americans to conceal his workers’ identities. Because the workers were undocumented, Baig and his store managers stole much of their wages and then paid them in cash, below the minimum wage.

Baig and his managers housed the undocumented immigrants at homes near the 7-Eleven stores where they worked, and deducted rent from their paychecks.

In all, their scheme lasted more than 13 years. Federal prosecutors said that over the course of two of those years, they stole more than $1.25 million from the undocumented immigrants working for them.

Undocumented workers are uniquely vulnerable to this kind of exploitation because many fear that talking to law enforcement will lead to their deportation.

The ICE official who spoke to The Daily Beast said undocumented workers who cooperate with the agency could potentially be eligible for U visas, which let victims of crimes who testify against their perpetrators stay in the United States temporarily.

Tom Homan, the acting director of ICE, said in a speech last month at the conservative Heritage Foundation that the agency would target more work sites in the coming months. He also said the agency would target undocumented workers as well as their employers.

“Not only are we going to prosecute the employers that hire illegal workers, we’re going to detain and remove the illegal alien workers,” he said.

“When we find you at a work site, we’re no longer going to turn our heads,” Homan said after the event, according to CNN. “We’ll go after the employer who knowingly hires an illegal alien... but we’re always going to arrest a person who is here illegally. That is our job.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-p...mented-workers

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