The following is a short list of U.S. companies caught with illegal aliens in their employ:
-Dunkin Donuts...George Valvanis, 53, of New Hampshire knowingly hired illegal aliens at several Dunkin’ Donuts stores in and around Portland, Maine. He conducted the illegal practice between 2001 and 2009.
In December 2010, Valvanis pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in a pattern or practice of recruiting or hiring illegal aliens unauthorized to work in the United States, and to one count of using a false attestation immigration document.
Valvanis could face up to five and a half years in prison. He will be sentenced in April.
-Chipotle Mexican Grills...In December 2010, Chipotle fired about 50 workers from several locations in Minnesota, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently began an investigation into the immigration status of the restaurant chain’s workforce.
In a press release, Chipotle said: “We are fully cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Minnesota in connection with a document request they have made.”
Workers were fired at locations in downtown Minneapolis (Skyway and Seven Corners), Golden Valley, Coon Rapids, Richfield, Stillwater and Hudson, Wis.
Chipotle has over 1,000 locations across the country and recorded a net income of $126 million in 2009.
-Sizzler...In June 2010, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputies raided two Sizzler steak house locations in Phoenix, in search of 23 suspected illegal alien workers. Nine were taken into custody.
The raids were precipitated after the sheriff’s office received a tip from a former manager who told them he was asked to quit when he refused to hire employees who could not produce proper identification.
According to MCSO, the former manager was offered three months severance pay in exchange for not reporting the information to law enforcement.
One of the illegal workers was actually deported three times from the U.S. and each time he returned, was hired back by Sizzler.
-Pro’s Ranch Markets...In May 2010, An Immigration and Customs Enforcement audit of Pro’s Ranch Markets in Phoenix, resulted in the firing of 300 illegal aliens. The federal audit discovered that 20 percent of the company’s workforce were living and working in the country illegally.
Julie Pace, an attorney for Pro’s Ranch Market claimed the illegal aliens, presented forged documentation at the time they were hired.
Pace said: “We complied with all the requirements, but they were still able to slip through.”
Pro’s Ranch Market operates six stores in the Phoenix area.
Soon after the illegal aliens were fired, local residents flooded into the stores, applying for the job openings.
-Koch Foods...In February 2010, it was announced that Koch Foods was forced to pay a fine of $536,046, after a 2007 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raid turned up 161 illegal aliens working in their Fairfield, OH plant.
ICE agents found 12 illegal aliens hiding in the walk-in freezer. Five of them required medical treatment.
Shortly after the raid, WCPO investigative reporter Laure Quinlivan asked Koch Foods human resources director Monty Lobb about the allegations. Lobb blamed the situation on the federal government, and their lack of cooperation in confirming the residency of potential employees.
Lobb responded: "Nobody will work with you, and I've been doing it on my own, cleaning up, making sure that everybody is legal. Now is everybody legal? Probably not. But by the documentation I have to have to do it, I terminated two people yesterday when I found out their papers were inaccurate."
Despite Lobb’s claims, when the reporter asked him to provide some documentation that he tried to verify his employees’ eligibility, he declined to do so.
Koch Foods which processes chicken, has nine plants nationwide, and supplies products to several restaurant chains, including Applebee’s, Cracker Barrel, and Dairy Queen.
-Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc...In July 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that Krispy Kreme agreed to pay a $40,000 fine for hiring illegal aliens, after an inspection by ICE discovered the company had hired dozens of illegal workers at their Cincinnati, OH factory.
According to the terms of the agreement, in addition to paying the fine, the doughnut maker promised to revamp their hiring process in order to hire only those authorized to work in this country.
-American Apparel...A 2009 investigation uncovered 1,800 illegal alien workers, using fraudulent documents. The company, located in Los Angeles is the nation’s largest clothing manufacturer, and the 1,800 illegal workers represented a third of their workforce. The owners of American Apparel have been outspoken proponents of an amnesty plan for this nation’s illegal alien population.
-McDonald’s...In July 2008, two executives and the owner of Mack Associates Inc. which operates 11 McDonalds franchises in Nevada pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges and aiding and abetting, after investigators determined that illegal aliens were not only working at the fast-food restaurants, but had been given names and Social Security numbers belonging to others by the managers.
According to Nevada U.S. attorney Gregory Brower, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids at restaurants in Reno, Sparks and Fernley resulted in the detainment of 56 illegal aliens.
In March 2010, sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County, AZ, executed search warrants at four McDonald’s restaurants, turning up 50 illegal alien workers. Most were charged with identity theft and fraud.
McDonald’s restaurants in many states have been raided by immigration officials and illegal aliens are often caught using stolen IDs and Social Security numbers.
-Agriprocessors Inc...In May 2008, ICE agents executed criminal and administrative search warrants at Agriprocessors, Inc., in Postville, IA, which resulted in the arrest of 389 illegal aliens. 305 of those arrested were also convicted of criminal offenses.
CEO Sholom Rubashkin was arrested and charged with federal conspiracy of harboring illegal immigrants and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft. However, the U.S. Attorney’s office later dropped all 72 charges against him.
-Pilgrim’s Pride...In April 2007, ICE agents arrested 311 illegal aliens working at five Pilgrim’s Pride sites. Of the 311 arrested, 91 were charged with other criminal violations.
-Del Monte Produce...In June 2007, ICE agents arrested 168 illegal alien employees at their Portland, OR facility. In addition to the illegal workers, 13 managers and other workers were arrested and charged with various crimes including selling Social Security cards.
-Verizon...In 2007, a Virginia State Trooper pulled over a van on Interstate 264, and found 14 illegal aliens inside the vehicle. The words “Verizon Contractor” were stamped on the doors.
The 12 Mexican and two Salvadoran nationals were hired by B&B Cable to dig ditches for Verizon’s fiber-optic project.
In 2008, B&B’s owner, Robert Buttery, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for hiring illegal aliens.
According to court documents, the workers were paid $100 per day for a 12-hour shift. However, living expenses were also deducted from their weekly pay. Apparently, all of them were living in one house which was either owned or rented by the company.
The men were making about $7 an hour for the back breaking work.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James Metcalfe told the court that Buttery’s company grossed $1.8 million during the four year period in which they employed illegal aliens, without ever paying a dime in Social Security or Medicare taxes.
-Swift and Company...In December 2006, ICE agents arrested 1,297 illegal aliens at six Swift meat processing factories in six states. 274 of those arrested were also charged with other criminal offenses.
-Golden State Fence Company...In December 2006, the company located in Southern California agreed to pay nearly $5 million in fines for repeatedly hiring illegal aliens. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico.
After a federal investigation in 1999 found dozens of illegal aliens on the payroll, Golden State promised to change their hiring practices. However, follow-up checks in 2004 and 2005 revealed that many of those same illegal workers were still on the job. U.S. Attorney Carol Lam said that as many as a third of the company's 750 workers may have been illegal aliens
Ironically, Golden State actually built a section of the border fence seperating San Diego and Mexico.
-Smithfield Foods...After ICE agents raided the Tar Heel, NC plant and arrested 21 illegal alien workers, 500 workers with fake Social Security numbers were promptly fired from the factory. Another raid in August 2007, netted 28 more illegal aliens, all were from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
-Wal-Mart...In 2005, company officials escaped criminal prosecution when they paid the federal government an $11 million settlement, after it was discovered that cleaning contractors Wal-Mart hired were using large numbers of illegal aliens.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 245 illegal aliens at Wal-Marts throughout Pennsylvania.
Government prosecutors claimed they had wiretaps to prove that Wal-Mart executives knew illegal aliens were working in their stores.
However, according to the terms of the settlement, Wal-Mart never admitted to any wrongdoing, and the company placed all of the blame on outside contractors.
It should be quite evident to even the most casual observer that the labor of illegal aliens is no longer confined to the landscaping business. It should also be just as evident that if illegal aliens were removed from this country (through a combination of both forced and self-imposed deportation), the current unemployment crisis would be greatly diminished.
With 1 in 5 Americans out of work, we simply cannot afford to allow one job go to an illegal alien. The issue of illegal immigration is now a fight for the survival of the American family.
As I always say…For every illegal alien with a job, there is an American without one.
Read more on how illegal immigration is putting Americans out of work: http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/study-finds-that-as-americans-lost-their-jobs-illegal-aliens-gained-them-w-video
Watch the video at left on the hiring practices of a major McDonald’s franchisee:
Comments
States are responsible to legislate protections for their citizens in the vacuum lefy by the federal government. For this common sense approach, the states get sued by the do nothing current administration.
I hope the INVASION of our country can be stopped soon or we aren't going to have a country left. Our government is pathetic! I want our laws enforced! No more running this country by political correctness! We must go back to the rule of law.
Obama, Holder nor Napolitano have any intention of treating our laws with respect. They need to back off prosecuting states that are struggling to deal with a foreign invasion the Federal Government promotes.
Cardenas Mexican supermarket have Spanish speaking foreigners working in their supermarket.
I wonder if laws matter to them? Hahaha
how many of those companies that hired illegals favored republicans with donations? Republicans have more to gain by ignoring the illegals situation...republican-leaning companies are the biggest users of illegal labor....they don't want the border closed, it would cut into their profits...why not ask republicans to close the border? see how far that gets...when it comes to illegal aliens, republicans are not your friends...they have sold their souls to the same companies that want that border wide open for a cheaper labor force...the worst thing for companies that hire illegals would be amnesty...their illegals that are afraid to demand raises would suddenly not be afraid to demand raises because they could then be able to walk across the street and get a job there....that is the main reason companies push republicans to fight amnesty....low wages.
We need to demand Mandatory E-Verify to check all jobs in the US, including all currently held jobs.
Until the 8 million people illegally working have been booted from their jobs, the government can't claim it is effectively fighting illegal immigration.
republicans are in the pockets of corporations.
corporations are hiring illegals to maximize profit.
do YOU think corporations are pushing republicans to pass E-verify?
you demand it? do you give republican politicians millions? corporations do...who do YOU think republicans are listening to? you or corporations? did you notice how republicans held the middle class hostage unless the millionaires and billionaires got taxcuts? Republicans will NOT pass E-verify....they will use the excuse of government overreach and government infiltration and anti-government this and that...in the end, you will come back to square one with nothing new on the illegal home front...PUT THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE and demand republicans do something about illegals THIS YEAR or you vote them OUT!
McDonald’s is nothing less than a national disgrace and contributes largely to this problem. We should demand they bring them back American workers or demand that I.C.E. shuts McDonald's down as a public nuisance.
McDonalds, yes has many illegals but all major fast fd restaurants have them. Factories as well. E-Verify needs to be mandated nationwide, and CEO's, HR Managers and owners must be jailed and heavily fined for employing them, while deporting the employees. Business would get the hint real quick. So Americans must continue to vote out any and all politicians who support illegals, at the expense of legal Americans. We can always just walk out of the place where you see illegals and spend your money elsewhere.
Democrats as well as Republicans are in the pockets of corporations judging by the campaign donations both parties get from the corporate supremacists. The present administration has totally turned their backs on American workers in favor of the illegal invaders.
AH yes! I remember how the democrats held the middle class hostage unless the millionaires and billionaires also got their taxcuts.
Well this is just fine. ICE is doing it's job. However, until a very big fence with guards ready to shoot is built, these workers that get deported can simply cross back over the border. They do it all the time. These deportations are no more than games from the federal government pretending to take care of the problem.
I just had Charter Cable come to my door to replace some cable. There were 4 men, only one spoke English (albeit very poorly). Who do I report this to?
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