Huge Immigration Raid
But No Management Arrested
By Daniel Muniz

When the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency conducted one of the largest single-site raids in its history, which netted almost 400 illegal aliens in Potsville Iowa, not a single company official faced any criminal charges. So how can the management of such a large corporation not know what was going on?

It is this kind of glaring omission that makes the crackdowns by the federal government on illegal workers such a farce.

The Agriprocessors Inc plant that operated in Potsville Iowa had more than one third of its work force apprehended in this raid, yet the entire management is fat, dumb, and happy in which nobody knew that anything illegal was going on. As a result, no manager or owner will be spending time in a courtroom. Of course there will be huge fines to be paid but nobody in management is going to be sitting in a jail cell.

Now here is some interesting information about that Agriprocessors plant:

Perhaps the most frustrating thing for me is that there are millions of people who are genuinely outraged by illegal immigration yet they still feel that America is being invaded by illegal aliens. To me, that is a real disconnect with reality because it is blatantly obvious that each and every illegal immigrant has been invited to this country.

Even though it is extremely rare for the management and the ownership of a company to ever get prosecuted, they still jump through all kinds of hoops to ensure that illegal workers have low paying jobs in their facilities. Big business and small firms alike have crafted so many ways to for illegal aliens to have employment but the worst thing about it is that these jobs are no longer under the table but out in plain sight for everyone to see.

Although a verification process has been set up and it is continually being upgraded, all that is needed are social security numbers to be plugged into it. It is totally irrelevant if the government tells a company that there is something suspicious about the eligibility of certain employees because it will take years before anything comes of it. And even if it does, like a raid performed by ICE, nobody in management is going to be arrested or be held liable in any way and it has been that way for too many decades.

In addition, it is completely ridiculous that a site can have 78 percent of its work force using bogus or stolen social security numbers yet the employer is completely oblivious to the fact that so many of their employees are here in this country illegally. These upper managers and owners just smile because they have been blessed to find so many people who are more than willing to work for so little money while their competitors have to pay much higher wages.

What it boils down to is that all of this a racket.

Employers know full well what they are doing yet they can still laugh all the way to bank because they also know that they are not going to be criminally punished. Consequently, there is absolutely no incentive for them to obey the law because they aren’t going to be prosecuted. Instead, they have a chance to make a lot more money with a work force that is about one notch above serfdom so they completely exploit it.

And worse, the companies that do play by the rules are at a severe disadvantage because they cannot compete against the outfits that pay these depressed wages in hazardous work conditions. It’s not as if these illegal workers are going to complain to anyone about how they are being mistreated or getting ripped off at the work place.

As for me, I am sick and tired of all of the outraged Americans who continue to blame the illegal aliens but overlook the role that the employer plays in illegal immigration. In the chicken or the egg game, it is the employer who came first, not the illegal alien. And if employers are never going to get punished, they will continue to keep inviting millions of illegal aliens to this country because they are cheap source of labor.

It is time to stop saying that America is being invaded by illegal aliens!

As long as the blame is chiefly centered on the illegal immigrant, then employers will keep screwing America.

After all, these business people are more interested in enriching their bottom line instead of worrying about the country dealing with an unsustainable flow of illegal immigration that is filling our streets with criminals, overcrowding our schools, and bankrupting our hospitals.

These managers and owners who are flouting our immigration laws need to be sharing a jail cell with Big Bubba while serving out a ten or twenty year prison sentence. And until that happens, we never will be able to completely control our border or our illegal immigration problem because these companies still keep inviting them to come to America.

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