2 supervisors at raided meatpacking plant arrested

It's about time someones feet were held to the fire! Fits nicely with this thread, http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/25585/Biggest-immig-raid-ever-much-worse-than-you-think/ 

 Yahoo News

DES MOINES, Iowa - Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the United States illegally.

Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 35, and Martin De La Rosa-Loera, 43, were also charged Thursday with and aiding and abetting the possession and use of fraudulent identification. Guerrero-Espinoza was charged with aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft.

Federal immigration officials raided Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, on May 12. Nearly 400 workers were detained and dozens of fraudulent permanent resident alien cards were seized from the plant's human resources department, court records said.

Since the raid, critics had asked federal officials why no top executives at the plant had been arrested even though more than a third of the plant's employees faced immigration charges.

"I'm still waiting to see whether federal officials will pursue an investigation into Agriprocessors itself for apparent workplace safety and immigration law violations," U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley said. "As I've said before, until we enforce our immigration laws equally against both employers and employees who break the law, we'll continue to have a problem with illegal immigration."

Agriprocessors spokesman Juda S. Engelmayer said the company and its attorneys were reviewing the paperwork from the federal action on Thursday and couldn't comment on the matter.

According to the complaints, sources told federal officials that Guerrero-Espinoza and De La Rosa-Loera were plant supervisors.

A person who worked in the human resource department told authorities that Guerrero-Espinoza would bring them resident alien cards for new job applicants who were to be hired in the beef kill department, one of the areas he supervised, the complaint said.

A week before the raid, Guerrero-Espinoza instructed a group of workers to get new IDs and Social Security numbers in order to keep working at the company, another source at the plant told authorities.

A number of sources said a couple of weeks before the raid that De La Rosa-Loera told them they needed new documents to work at the plant, the complaint against him said. When they got the new documents, they reported that De La Rosa-Loera handed them back but allowed them to continue working at the plant.

Detention hearings for both men were ordered for Monday in Cedar Rapids. Court documents did not list attorneys for the men, and officials with the U.S. Clerk of District Court's office did not know whether attorneys had been appointed.

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Associated Press writer Henry C. Jackson contributed to this report.

That's odd? A supervisor has hiring privies? This sounds like HR found a couple sacrificial lambs. They should go after HR to see if they even bothered to check legal status of them along with the legal status of the 2 supervisors. Either way, this company should pay heavily for not attempting to hire legal people.

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No the owners must be arrested.

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blaze77535 said: No the owners must be arrested.

 

Yup,  Drag them into court and apply the LAW to their knowingly illicit behavior.  And could we please look into the Clinton's Arkansas pal, Don Tyson as well.  He has already had two scandals in the past with Mike Espy taking the fall for inspection violations and Hillary's cattle futures fiasco that he initiated.   I have boycotted all products from TYSON for over ten years.  I will not allow it in my house.  

 

Here's my take,

   Anyone who is incapable of managing their business without using low cost illegal labor is not legitimate and should not be stealing business from those who are legitimate participants in our economy by following the rules.   If we are going have an economy at all, we need people who are paid a living wage to be consumers of products made here.  Breaking everyone and then telling them they need to go along with lopsided trade deals so they can sell to the people in foreign countries who have their old jobs and the money that goes with it is so like McCain I am furious that some people are still buying the lie 15 years after this crap was proposed.   To imply that as a resuilt of traitorous trade policy we must allow our remaining businesses to use illegal labor to "compete" is to be completely ignorant of the cause of our decline. 

TG 

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