The owner of a temporary employment agency and her assistant were sentenced in federal court Wednesday for harboring illegal aliens and assisting those workers in obtaining unauthorized access to secure areas at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, including the tarmac, according to a government report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
Mary Gurin, 38, of Carpentersville, Illinois, and Norinye Benitez, 26, of Franklin Park, Illinois, were sentenced on September 30 by U.S. District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo, Northern District of Illinois, for harboring illegal aliens for financial gain. Gurin, who pleaded guilty May 11 to the charge, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison. Benitez received 12 months and one day of imprisonment following her December 12, 2008 guilty plea.
According to documents filed in court, Gurin owned Ideal Staffing, a staffing agency located in Bensenville,
Illinois, that contracted with several companies to provide temporary employees for work done in and around O'Hare.
Between February 2006 and November 2007, Gurin knowingly employed at least 54 illegal workers and arranged for them to fraudulently obtain airport security badges by falsely certifying information on the security badge application forms. The badges allowed the workers to enter secure areas while loading pallets, freight and meals for companies doing business at O'Hare, including some commercial airlines.
At times, Gurin also knowingly distributed airport security badges issued in other names to the illegal workers, which circumvented the appropriate security screening process and allowed illegal workers access to secure areas.
The 54 illegal workers from Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador all faced state felony charges for possessing fraudulent identification in the form of an airport security badge. So far, authorities have recovered 34 fraudulent airport badges.
"These cases illustrate the need for ICE's continued vigilance to protect our nation's airports and other critical infrastructure," said John Morton, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for ICE. "The defendants circumvented airport security and the screening process in the name of greed."
According to court documents, Gurin supervised the work of Norinye Benitez, her office assistant. Under Gurin's direction, Benitez assisted hiring between 35 and 40 illegal workers and fraudulently obtained airport security badges for them. Benitez admitted to falsifying information on employment forms for workers who did not have proper identification, and to knowingly hiring illegal workers who presented counterfeit documents.
Benitez is herself an illegal alien and will be transferred to ICE custody after she completes her prison sentence.
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Comments
Is there anything in Chicago that is not corrupt? Now they bringing this at the White House with Obama, Jarrett, Gibbs, Axlerod and on and on... 3 more years of this group, God help us.
Walt "3More years" try 16 years, America cant afford another republican, Bush took us from surplus to largest deficit in the history of the world in 8 years and then as a last shot he gave 700 Billion dollars, our money to the same people that helped get us into this mess.
3 years, what ru smoking???
Obama will never make a 2nd term! He has a silver gift
of gab that is wearing thin even with people who voted
for him.The far left wing of the Demos have their first
"Post American President" and more and more U.S.Citizens
are not happy with our Manchurian Candidate,"Want Change" and not Obamaton!
chicago o'hare airport..no problem...lots of places to shop/eat...no problem..staffed by illegals!!! PROBLEM!!!!
Goodness gracious! 54!
Well done to ICE and thank you for reporting this.
Makes me think there's more than one reason to decline airplane food.
And the Hispanic Congressional Caucus want Homeland Security to stop its efforts to secure illegal aliens with criminal records.
This is just like cockroaches; you see one (or a few), there are a lot more that haven't been discovered...yet. We desparately need more ICE raids throughout the entire workforce, from airports to meat-packing firms. Enough is enough and it's time to get moving on deportations and securing our borders.
Unfortunately, I'm not holding my breath considering the stance on immigration reform (aka amnesty) that the Obama administration has taken on the immense problem we face with illegal immigration.
Why don't we round up illegals and dump them on the Whitehouse lawn where the other illegal allien lives?
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