Month: June 2018

If the people protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or even trying to Doxx them thought they were having any impact on the agency’s agenda, those hopes have probably been dashed. ICE is still keeping busy, this time out in the Buckeye State. A raid in Ohio recently saw agents visiting a meatpacking plant where the management mysteriously seems to have not noticed that they literally had more than 100 illegal aliens working there, most of them from Guatemala. After being briefly detained, a number of them were allowed to go free with a court date while the agency looks further into the activities of the employer. (Fox News)

U.S. immigration agents have arrested more than 100 workers at an Ohio meat packing plant, the second large-scale raid in the state within the past two weeks.

Immigration officials say the arrests on Tuesday came after a year-long investigation into whether the company knowingly hired people who are in the country illegally.

The arrests happened at Fresh Mark’s meat processing plant in Salem in northeastern Ohio. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it also carried out search warrants at the company’s three other locations in Canton and Massillon.

This set of raids on Fresh Mark’s plants came relatively close on the heels of a previous raid – also in Ohio – where ICE found 114 illegal aliens working at a lawn and garden business.

More than 100 arrests have been reported after federal immigration agents raided an Ohio lawn and garden business Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s growing crackdown on employers suspected of hiring illegal immigrants.

The Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents, carrying weapons, showed up at two Corso’s Flower & Garden Centers–one in the Lake Erie resort town of Sandusky and the other in the nearby town of Castalia and arrested 114 suspected illegal immigrants in one of the largest immigration stings in years.

Obviously, the agency has had their eyes on Ohio for a while now and has been collecting information on employers who are suspected of ignoring immigration law. In both cases, agents allege that many of the workers had fake identification, fraudulently impersonating U.S. citizens to obtain work. In those cases, prosecutions are far more likely because of the additional felony charges on top of being in the country illegally.

The common theme in both raids is that so far neither of the employers have been charged with anything, but both are reportedly “under investigation.” Let’s hope so. While we shouldn’t ignore the individual illegal aliens who were apprehended, the real problem here is the fact that employers are still willing to provide jobs to illegals. That’s the magnet that draws them and without that incentive, there would be a lot less work to do at the border.

Having worked briefly in a meatpacking plant one summer while growing up, I can assure you that it’s no fun. But hey.. it was a job. And if you offer sufficient pay and benefits, you will find Americans willing to do that work. Hiring illegal aliens may increase your profit margins in the short term, but that’s not much consolation if the government comes and shuts you down entirely. Then nobody has a job.

These cases are yet another example of why E-Verify should be mandatory across the country. If the employers are on record saying that they’re properly using that system and they turn out to be gaming it, you’ll see business owners marching into courtrooms in orange jumpsuits and handcuffs. At that point, the illegal immigrant hiring problem will almost entirely vanish, along with much of the incentive for people to jump the border.

One night after Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen conducted a press conference defending the forcible separation of immigrant children from their families, a member of Washington, D.C.’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter received a text from a friend.

“A member got a text saying ‘Kirstjen Nielsen is eating nachos like ten feet from me,’” Allison Hrabar, a spokesperson for the Metro DC DSA told The Daily Beast.

Less than 30 minutes later, about a dozen members of DSA were inside MXDC Cocina Mexicana, shouting at Nielsen while she tried to eat her Mexican dinner. […]

After video went viral Tuesday night, commenters blasted the demonstrators for disrupting dinner. But unfinished nachos are a small price to pay, DSA members said.

“Oppressed people have never been given their rights by asking politely,” Hrabar said. “Kirstjen Nielsen is not going to be convinced by us politely saying ‘could you maybe not separate children from their families? Could you maybe stop detaining and deporting migrants who have done nothing wrong?’”

“As someone who’s Jewish, I’ve been raised with this notion that this could happen again.” Rabinowitz said. “Never again means never again for anybody.”[…]

Since Sunday, Portland, Oregon activists including members of the Portland DSA, the Direct Action Alliance, and the National Lawyers Guild have been set up camp outside a local ICE prison. The coalition blockaded the roads leading to the facility, preventing anyone from driving in or out. On Tuesday, after a standoff with protesters, every ICE employee except for one security guard left the building, Raw Story reported. The guard, told demonstrators that the facility was closing and that “it’s unknown when it will open.”

Hrabar said the DC DSA has been staging demonstrations outside the homes of prominent ICE and Trump administration officials for the past three months.

“Two weeks from now, we’ll be visiting another high-up Trump administration official at his home and telling him we’re not going to stand for this kind of policy or any detention and deportation of immigrants,” she said.

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