After a ten month investigation, federal officials raided six meatpacking plants that were hiring illegal immigrants, some with stolen identities of U.S. Citizens.
The raids at the plants operated by Swift & Company, resulted in the apprehension of almost 1,300 illegal immigrants. The Immigration and practice enforcement (Ice) raid netted 1,217 persons that were being detained on immigration charges and an additional one 65 on identity theft charges. Some of these persons were wanted on excellent existing criminal warrants for crimes previously committed. Most of the identity theft involved the use of legitimate group safety numbers assigned to U.S. Citizens. The arrested workers were from, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Laos, Sudan, Ethiopia and other countries according to Ice.
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Swift & Co. Was not charged. Why not, you ask? They claimed that they had no idea that they had employees on the payroll using the same group safety numbers as an American laborer in other cities. The company had participated in a government schedule known as "Basic Pilot" since 1997 to ascertain through a federal database the legitimacy of the Ss numbers that were presented by the prospective employee. That is probably why officials of Swift & Co. Were not charged. However, the database only tells the inquirer that the numbers are legitimate. It does not tell them that the applicant is presently working in an additional one city.
When I was in business, I was required, as every manager is, to file quarterly 941 tax forms. These forms contain the names and Ss numbers of all employees on the payroll and the manager identification amount of the company. Listed on the form are all the payments made while the last quarter for monies collected for, withholding taxes, Ss contributions, Medicare contributions and any other payments the manager is required to hold and deposit with the Internal income Service. So don't try to tell me that if I have an laborer in Colorado that is using the Ss amount of a laborer in Detroit and paying Ss contributions from two separate employers while the same working period their computers would not pick that up. I know, it is easy to say that the person probably has a part time job after his quarterly one. However, it is a hell of a commute from Detroit, Michigan to Greeley, Colorado.
It is amazing how Aol can tell me to pick an additional one password or screen-name because one of their millions of subscribers already has the one I want. However, the government cannot tell an manager that person in an additional one city is already paying taxes under that Ss number.
The real demand is whose accounts were the Ss payments being credited to, the laborer in Michigan or Colorado? Secondly, if there was an overpayment who received the refund? That sass is simple. If you do not know you overpaid, you never ask for a refund so Irs does not send one. Therefore, the money paid as Ss contributions by the illegal laborer stays in the fund. The only beneficiaries are the Ss fund and the laborer who retires and collects their benefits which may now be larger because more was paid in. The problem is, no one is request to verify the address that belongs to the Ss list in question.
So what is the downfall of the Ice raids? An Abc news reporter in Denver is quoted as saying," Quite honestly, you're finding at two weeks before Christmas, and there is buying power leaving the economy." If that reporter easily thinks that the discount in Christmas shopping spending by the 261 employees Detained in Colorado, that are now without a job is going to work on the economy of Colorado there is a bridge in New York City I would like to sell that reporter.
If they were not working there, taking jobs away from Americans there would be 261 Americans spending at the malls.
Judy Griego, director of Weld County group Services is quoted in the Greeley Tribune as saying, "Our wish would have been they (Ice) should have let us know beforehand. We have kind of collapsed around this situation internally. Frankly, we don't know how many kids are involved in this now. It's kind of guesswork." Why is she blaming Ice for not informing her? Swift & Co. Knew months before the raid was coming. They even went to court to try to stop it. Why didn't Swift & Co. Forewarn group services? I believe they have a much greater enforcement and involvement in the society than Ice.
I can hear all the politicians on both sides of the aisle in outrage. These people were doing jobs that Americans will not do we need them. Really! Prior to the Hart/Celler Act of 1965 there was negative emigration not immigration. Actually, from 1921 until 1965 immigration was close to zero. Think about this, our lettuce was picked, our houses were cleaned, our children were cared for and our lawns were mowed. Whom do you think did all that work?
The Hart/Cellar bill, which opened up our borders to a flood of immigration, may be the imagine for the problems we see today. while the hearings of the senate immigration subcommittee, Chairman Edward (Ted) Kennedy (D-Ma) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following statement: "This bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."
Here is the punch line to all this. The opportunity line in the Rocky Mountain News of December 15, 2006 said, "The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. Meat- processing plant earlier this week was out the door on Thursday." Did you observation the word "Undocumented?" They were documented, some just had other peoples documents. Political Correctness triumphs again.
A full-page ad in Wednesday's Greely Tribune states that the company is contribution a ,500 signing bonus for new employees. It said all shifts and all taste levels are needed. It looks like it was a Merry Christmas for some people in Greeley.
How fast can some unemployed Americans find a job? Well if you live in Greeley, Colorado or any of the other five cities that were raided it seems it will happen pretty "Swift."
And, that is my opinion.
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