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Oh Thank Heaven: ICE Launches Series of Immigration Raids at 7-Eleven Stores

Dispirited by an inability to save DACA, Democrats and liberal activists will be doing a hissy fit hat dance as news of another operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been revealed.

ICE agents have descended at nearly one hundred locations belonging to the popular convenience store chain 7-Eleven in multiple states to verify the credentials of employees and their legality to be in the United States.

According to Associated Press reports “Immigration agents descend on 7-Eleven stores in 17 states”:

Seven immigration agents filed into a 7-Eleven store before dawn Wednesday, waited for people to go through the checkout line and told arriving customers and a driver delivering beer to wait outside. A federal inspection was underway, they said.

Within 20 minutes, they verified that the cashier had a valid green card and served notice on the owner to produce hiring records in three days.

The well-rehearsed scene, executed with quiet efficiency in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, played out at about 100 7-Eleven stores in 17 states and the District of Columbia, a rolling operation that officials called the largest immigration action against an employer under Donald Trump’s presidency.

The so-called employment audits and interviews with store workers could lead to criminal charges or fines. And they appeared to open a new front in Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement, which has already brought a 40 percent increase in deportation arrests and pledges to spend billions of dollars on a border wall with Mexico.

A top official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday’s operation was “the first of many” and “a harbinger of what’s to come” for employers.

Agents are participating in a long overdue crackdown on employers who hire illegal aliens, therefore depriving law-abiding and LEGAL American citizens of jobs and otherwise serve to depress wages. It has long been believed by many that the quickest way to solve the nation’s illegal immigration problems would be to punish those who are hiring illegals.

Quite simply put, without jobs, there would be less of a reason to stay here nor the allure to undertake big risks to leave the countries that they came from.

According to a statement from ICE Deputy Director Thomas Honan:

“Today’s actions send a strong message to U.S. businesses that hire and employ an illegal workforce: ICE will enforce the law, and if you are found to be breaking the law, you will be held accountable,” said Thomas D. Homan, ICE Deputy Director and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director. “Businesses that hire illegal workers are a pull factor for illegal immigration and we are working hard to remove this magnet. ICE will continue its efforts to protect jobs for American workers by eliminating unfair competitive advantages for companies that exploit illegal immigration.”

Judging from the early reaction on Twitter and social media, the left is infuriated at this development, accusing ICE agents of being “jack-booted thugs”, “Nazis”, “fascists” and all of the other standard pejoratives that are tossed in the direction of those tasked with enforcing the law.

To say that this is an existential crisis for the Democrats is an understatement and comes at a particularly bad time with Latino activists furious that Nancy Pelosi reneged on her promises to give all of the illegal alien DREAMERS amnesty for Christmas.

via Downtrend.com

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