51 undocumented immigrants nabbed in Palm Springs work-site raid

A work-site raid at a Palm Springs bakery Wednesday resulted in the arrests of 51 illegal immigrant workers from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala and their current and former supervisors, who allegedly hired the employees in exchange for money, reports Anna Gorman.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the agency had opened an investigation into Palm Springs Baking Co. based on a tip in 2006 that the business was hiring unauthorized workers.

During the investigation, officials said, they discovered that more than 100 of 130 Social Security numbers were invalid or didn't match the names of employees. Many of the Social Security numbers belonged to U.S. citizens or legal workers from California and several other states, as well as to people who had died, according to court papers. About 25 people were using fake numbers, court papers said.

Both the current supervisor, 52-year-old Margarita Avilez Hernandez, and the former manager, 36-year-old Alicia Ramirez, face criminal charges and could get six months in federal prison if convicted.

The arrests were the latest in a string of immigration enforcement actions at work sites nationwide during the past year. Between Sept. 30 and Aug. 30, the agency arrested about 4,700 illegal workers on suspicion of administrative immigration law violations and 1,070 others on criminal charges.

One of the biggest of those raids was on a meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa, in May, in which nearly 400 people were arrested.

Read more about the ICE raid in Palm Springs here.

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-- Deborah Bonello

 

Comments

[southoc]

Good job ICE!

I hope this company goes under.

[keanolo]

Southern California needs twice as many ICE fugitive operation teams that it presently has. Call your congressman and demand that an additional ten fugitive ops teams be assigned to Los Angeles and San Bernadino counties. With more ICE ops teams working 24/7/365, I believe we can put a significant dent in the ilolegal alien population in SoCal.. Grab em, jail em' and deport em". That's what we need more of.

[Carracticus]

So many crimes are happening across America, that usually do not warrant any national press report. Thousands have been needless caused under the sheltering blanket of 'SANCTUARY CITIES' The question is, has this been going on for decades? That only because we have the Internet, instant communication that everybody knows almost immediately? Or is it because the masses of illegal people entering this nation, without being screened has brought with them a third world mentality?

If it wasn't for Independent Journalists like Lou Dobbs of CNN or O'Reilly from FOX, Glenn Beck, as the population of activists Americans would forever remain in the dark. Pro-immigrant zealots don't like it, because the average citizen or legal resident has a say in this explosive issue. Regular citizens have become the first line of defense of corrupt politicians and the special interest lobby, that remain in collusion with far-left (9th district court) judges and extremist groups which border on tyranny.

We have the violent street gangs protected by 'Sanctuary cities' like Los Angeles. Although thousands have died under the masquerade of Sanctuary city policies. Mayor Villigrossa of Los Angeles, followed closely by Mayor Newsom of San Francisco have allowed the obscene police law to propagate. Even as a speak three lives were taken in Aurora, Colorado by another illegal alien thanks to Mayor John Hickenlooper’s. Yet another two police officers killed in cold blood, by another illegal alien who escaped to Mexico. In Texas Officer Rodney Johnson was gunned down after making a routine traffic stop and arrest. Houston Police Officer Gary Gryder was struck and killed by a driver. the shooting death of Fort Myers police officer Andrew Widman. These deaths should never have happened, if it wasn't for tainted politicians intentionally subverting the laws. These disturbing deaths are ricocheting around the Internet, but not in the liberalized national media. Go to the under mentioned websites below and GOOGLE the widespread carnage.

Then we have honest, pro-American Mayors like Lou Barletta of Hazleton and the Governor Don Carcieri fighting for there citizens, but demonized by anti-sovereignty groups like the ACLU, Southern Poverty League zealots and the US Chamber of Commerce. There is a anti-illegal war that is about to boil over as legal Americans finally realize the extent of the occupation. It's US, against THEM? Them being the corrupt politicians who genuflect to the corporate world, who without any conscious

According to the (1986) Immigration Control act. Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A): they broke Federal law. It states, "..a person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) Then Mayor Newsom, Mayor Villigrossa who must be held accountable for the deaths of 3 Bolgna family members, Jamiel Shaw under the obnoxious 'Sanctuary City' laws by illegal gang member filth.

So we cannot blame completely the US government for not uphold the immigration laws, as cities as Los Angeles, CA San Francisco, CA, Denver, CO, Austin, TX, Chicago and many more have taken it upon themselves to give refuge to all illegal immigrants and perhaps hundreds of thousands of criminals from the gutters of third world countries.

Americans do not have the financial backing of corporate farms, Foundations, business CARTELS of funds extracted from taxpayers without their knowledge. Funding anti-sovereignty, extremist entities like La Raza (the Race), Army of National Liberation and Mexicanos Sin Fronteras (Mexicans Without Borders, just to name two.

Those who steal across our perforated fence, includes the criminal element that think they above above US law. Each day citizens are slain on the roads of America, by drunk illegal drivers. This is far from isolated case, because these accident reports are not necessary revealed by the biased press. Pedestrians have become 'road kill' daily, especially when the victims are innocent children. Do not expect to read about this carnage in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times. You need to dig deeper in rural newspapers or the e-media on the Internet, to find the unsuppressed facts.

Then we have the violent street gangs protected by 'Sanctuary cities' like Los Angeles. The unsuppressed news reports will tell you about the child pedophiles, female assaults, murders, robbers and Social security theft that do not get wide press. Thousands of families are left to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. The pro-immigrant zealots use the same mantra, that citizens and legal residents commit these crimes also...? But why when we have our own inmate crowding our prisons, should we need to support illegal foreign nationals criminals. Today we cannot even deport them and breathe a sigh of relief, because it seems like days before the return via the porous fence to violate our penal laws.

Americans are sick and tired of these Sanctuary city laws; but not just SANCTUARY CITIES, but states as well? It's costing taxpayers to much money to give social welfare to illegal aliens. But far, far worse is the sheltering of violent and predatory criminal animals that are preying on innocent Americans and even their own people.

As of this week 27 radio stations and growing is a massive revolution against this invasion. Alas the numbers of actual illegal aliens occupying this nation has been doctored, as it has for many years. Lou Dobbs of CNN cable has seen this infestation of illegal people become epidemic and still propagating as thousands slip pass our undermanned border patrol everyday. Numberusa, a pro-sovereignty entity has gained nearly 760.000 subscribers and that is growing in patriotic volume.

It seems like our 'Rule of Laws' are violated everyday, because the business empire demands cheap labor. Our corrupt politicians play games with American lives because they refuse to enforce immigration laws. All encompassing is the Federal SAVE ACT(H.R.4088) that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to derail along with the original two-tier border fence.We need 'zero tolerance' enforcement, that will give maximum arrest and detainment of predator employers of illegal immigrants. South Carolina just joined other states with new employer sanction law,but needs the added teeth of the SAVE ACT, which will strengthen its enforcement power.

A new AMNESTY is in the works from Senator Obama, McCain which will flood America with even more of poor, illiterate foreign labor. McCain is a 'dark horse' because his original stand with pro-illegal immigrant groups. How can we trust either McCain to seal our border, when he is a hard-core globalist? Most globalists are open border, free market zealots, whose agenda is the free movement of cheap labor in the North American Continent. Read the sickening truth of criminal activity and violent crimes caused by criminal the illegal immigrant. NUMBERSUSA. LIBERTY POST, IMMIGRATION NEWS INDEXER, JUDICIAL WATCH, UNIPAC, GRASSFIRE, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION JOURNAL These sites report the news, not to be found in the restricted corporate media.

If we enact the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) enforcement only law. Millions of illegal aliens will leave by self-deportation. ATTRITION! No job, they will leave of their own accord. Only anti-American groups and Liberal-Democrat-Socialists are stopping this law. ASK THEM WHY?

www.numbersusa.com have the uncensored truth? IT'S YOUR FAMILIES FUTURE. DEPORTATION OR OVERPOPULATION.
IF WE DON'T STOP IT NOW, THEY WILL KEEP COMING..

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