Oregon plant raided

[Tim and Bethanie 1]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/12/...ration-Raid.php

PORTLAND, Oregon: U.S. federal agents on Tuesday raided the offices of a food processing plant suspected of employing hundreds of illegal workers who used Social Security numbers that belonged to other people or were made up, authorities said.

By Tuesday morning, approximately 100 workers had been placed under administrative arrest to be processed for possible deportation, an official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. More arrests were expected, the official said.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk about the case ahead of a news conference scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

According to an affidavit filed by Maximillian Trimm, a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only 48 of nearly 600 employees at the Fresh Del Monte Produce fruit and vegetable processing plant had valid Social Security numbers.

[Sinergy 3]

48 out of 600 had valid ssn??? geez!!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/12/...ration-Raid.php

PORTLAND, Oregon: U.S. federal agents on Tuesday raided the offices of a food processing plant suspected of employing hundreds of illegal workers who used Social Security numbers that belonged to other people or were made up, authorities said.

By Tuesday morning, approximately 100 workers had been placed under administrative arrest to be processed for possible deportation, an official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. More arrests were expected, the official said.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk about the case ahead of a news conference scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

According to an affidavit filed by Maximillian Trimm, a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only 48 of nearly 600 employees at the Fresh Del Monte Produce fruit and vegetable processing plant had valid Social Security numbers.

Which translates into 552 identity theft victims. I hope no one we know

[almaty 19]

hmmm....

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

see, things like this would be averted if only we'd give everybody legal status

[natty bumppo 297]

I sense the local employment office will be busy soon ... and the unemployment rate for the area will be less too

[peejay 327]

I sense the local employment office will be busy soon ... and the unemployment rate for the area will be less too

Bingo!

As will wages be higher.

Edited June 12, 2007 by peejay

[Dr_LHA 3]

The price of tinned pineapple will be going up soon.

[natty bumppo 297]

I sense the local employment office will be busy soon ... and the unemployment rate for the area will be less too

Bingo!

As will wages be higher.

And a stable ... dependable work force. One that obeys the law and has a tendency to not be taken away.

Costs go down: less repeat training, no fines for hiring illegal’s, no bribes to pay for notification of future "raids", puts money into the community (pay taxes), etc.

[peejay 327]

The price of tinned pineapple will be going up soon.

I'm sure you can afford it.

[homesick_american 1]

Which translates into 552 identity theft victims. I hope no one we know

Yeah really...and then people expect us to feel sorry for the illegals. Yeah right!

[Heracles 417]

see, things like this would be averted if only we'd give everybody legal status

Is that supposed to be a joke. We are lucky that Indians and Chinese have not caught on to this amnesty rubbish otherwise the US will have 100 million illegals here..

This particular incident indicates that there are no adequate laws and measures in place to heavily punish companies and/or whoever is responsible for hiring them. Lets assume there was a $20,000 fine per person employed illegally. This company would have been fined over $10 million dollars. On the 3rd offense the managers should be personally fined and jailed. Do you think anyone would be dumb enough to risk employing illegal immigrants to save a few bucks??

Edited June 12, 2007 by Infidel

[pedroh 21]

I sense the local employment office will be busy soon ... and the unemployment rate for the area will be less too

Bingo!

As will wages be higher.

And a stable ... dependable work force. One that obeys the law and has a tendency to not be taken away.

Costs go down: less repeat training, no fines for hiring illegal’s, no bribes to pay for notification of future "raids", puts money into the community (pay taxes), etc.

actually.. not.. from the examples in NC... when Smithfields had the ICE raid, and after that the 300-400 other employees quit cuz they were skeered.. wages didn't increase, USC's got paid the same.. also.. no, I'm not trying to be an 'enabler'.. but ask any RH person from those big plants, and they don't want Americans.. why, those jobs (meat, fruit, processing etc), are hard, and since the illegals don't have a lot of options, they stay.. Americans have a very high rate of rotation in those plants, thats why they even had to use re-hiring policies (rehire after 1 year, rehire after 90 days), cuz people work for 2 weeks, then quit, go somewhere else, and try to go back.. theres 50 new people every week, 30 leave, 20 stay.. so the training costs increase a lot... don't believe me, call Smithfields packin, Mountaire farms or Prestage farms from NC...

so.. it's not that easy..

Edited June 12, 2007 by pedroh

[homesick_american 1]

I sense the local employment office will be busy soon ... and the unemployment rate for the area will be less too

Bingo!

As will wages be higher.

And a stable ... dependable work force. One that obeys the law and has a tendency to not be taken away.

Costs go down: less repeat training, no fines for hiring illegal’s, no bribes to pay for notification of future "raids", puts money into the community (pay taxes), etc.

actually.. not.. from the examples in NC... when Smithfields had the ICE raid, and after that the 300-400 other employees quit cuz they were skeered.. wages didn't increase, USC's got paid the same.. also.. no, I'm not trying to be an 'enabler'.. but ask any RH person from those big plants, and they don't want Americans.. why, those jobs (meat, fruit, processing etc), are hard, and since the illegals don't have a lot of options, they stay.. Americans have a very high rate of rotation in those plants, thats why they even had to use re-hiring policies (rehire after 1 year, rehire after 90 days), cuz people work for 2 weeks, then quit, go somewhere else, and try to go back.. theres 50 new people every week, 30 leave, 20 stay.. so the training costs increase a lot... don't believe me, call Smithfields packin, Mountaire farms or Prestage farms from NC...

so.. it's not that easy..

So...I'm supposed to feel sorry for these companies because Americans won't tolerate that level of exploitation? Eh...no. The way illegals are treated basically amounts to neo-industrial feudalism and this is what happens when you put the interests of business above all else. We have the current crop of ReTHUGlicans to thank for that.

[GaryC 7]

So...I'm supposed to feel sorry for these companies because Americans won't tolerate that level of exploitation? Eh...no. The way illegals are treated basically amounts to neo-industrial feudalism and this is what happens when you put the interests of business above all else. We have the current crop of ReTHUGlicans to thank for that.

May I point out that the '86 amnesty was a Kennedy bill as well as the current amnesty bill? May I also point out that the dems are the ones that don't want to secure the border? I would say its more of a dem thing to welcome the cheap labor and not the reps.