Hundreds seized in immigration raids
More than 1,000 illegals rounded up. Working for
just one company. Multiply that by how many companies?
Federal immigration authorities rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants at dozens of sites and charged nine individuals of the firm that employed them, federal law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
Seven current and former managers of IFCO Systems, which has offices in several states, were arrested and charged in connection with the employment of illegal immigrants…
A customs official said federal authorities checked a “sample” of 5,800 IFCO employee records last year and found that 53 percent had faulty Social Security numbers.
“They were using Social Security numbers of people that were dead, of children or just different individuals that did not work at IFCO,” Immigration and Customs agency chief Julie Myers told CNN.
“The Social Security Administration had written IFCO over 13 times and told them, ‘Listen, You have a problem. You have over a thousand employees that have faulty Social Security numbers. And we consider that to be a big problem.’ And IFCO did not do anything about it,” Myers said.
Homeland Insecurity says this is the start of a new policy. Why should enforcing the law be a “new” policy? Can we count on this to be ongoing policy — or just window dressing to help pass more lame legislation that will be ignored like existing laws?
Posted: Thu - April 20, 2006 at 07:26 AM