What do you think about the ICE raids on the 7/11 stores today?
They have been hiring illegal workers for so many years.
What do you think about the ICE raids on the 7/11 stores today?
How bout they target gangs like MS-13.... I mean, 7-11's? Really?
Chinese takeout next? I've always thought they were a clearing house for illegal imports.
How bout they target gangs like MS-13.... I mean, 7-11's? Really?
The folks at 7-11 work in a dangerous and thankless job. I don't think they are a threat the feds should spend their time on. As long as there is a single MS13 cretin who gets released because ICE doesn't have the manpower to serve a detainer, ICE should stop wasting their time on 7-11 clerks, meatpackers and peach harvesters.
President George W. Bush’s administration pursued high-profile criminal investigations against employers in its final years with dramatic pre-dawn shows of force and large numbers of worker arrests. In 2008, agents arrived by helicopter at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, and detained nearly 400 workers. Last month, Trump commuted the 27-year prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, former chief executive of what was the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking operation.
Barack Obama’s administration more than doubled employer audits to more than 3,100 a year in 2013, shunning Bush’s flashier approach. John Sandweg, an acting ICE director under Obama, said significant fines instilled fear in employers and avoided draining resources from other enforcement priorities, which include child exploitation, human trafficking and money laundering.
Wednesday’s audits arose from a 2013 investigation that resulted in charges against nine 7-Eleven franchisees and managers in New York and Virginia. Eight have pleaded guilty and were ordered to pay more than $2.6 million in back wages, and the ninth was arrested in November.
The managers used more than 25 stolen identities to employ at least 115 people in the country illegally, knowing they could pay below minimum wage, according to court documents.
Neither 7-Eleven nor was its parent company, Seven & I Holding Co. based in Tokyo, was charged in the case.
Julie Myers Wood, former head of ICE during the Bush administration, said the most recent inspections showed that immigration officials were focusing on a repeat violator. Part of the problem, Wood said, is the lack of “a consistent signal” between administrations that the U.S. government will prosecute employers who hire immigrants without legal status.
Low hanging fruit.
If I may ...
Maybe, but the reason for this raid, focused on this one business, was because it is extremely public and now on every MSM outlet. A message is being sent loud and clear to big business operations such as in the construction, landscaping, road building industries etc, as well those workers and being communicated on Telemundo and Spanish speaking radio. I'm sure that this has not gone unnoticed. A warning shot across the bow so to speak.
So, this is a mess of our own making and again, the 7-11 clerks are probably the last group ICE should be chasing around. As long as there are tatted up MS13 gang-bangers walking around who will kill you and cut you to pieces just to impress their boss, wasting resources in clerks is bordering malfeasance.
What do you think about the ICE raids on the 7/11 stores today?
Including some in DC and Maryland.
They have been hiring illegal workers for so many years.
Statistical data and research will show how much money was spent to get rid of illegals during the Trump administration and how little benefit it actually gave to the average American.
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I've said before that one of the main ways to curb illegal immigration is to take away their ability to work. One way to do that is to go after the employers who are breaking the law by giving them the ability to work.
I think if you make it tough for them here, they will leave. End of story......