From USA Today:
Federal officials said Operation Wagon Train netted 1,282 individuals, the largest such crackdown on illegal immigration at a single worksite.
“This is not only a case about illegal immigration, which is bad enough,” Chertoff said at a news conference in Washington. “It’s a case about identity theft and violation of the privacy rights and the economic rights of innocent Americans.”
He said the cases involved the identify theft of hundreds of people.
“These individuals suffered very real consequences in their lives,” he said. “These are not victimless crimes.”
The target of the raids, Swift & Co., one of the world’s largest meat processors, shut down nearly all its U.S. operations after the crackdown.
Look who one of the victims is: One of the victims was a Border Patrol agent!
Affidavits on 25 arrest warrants were filed about 4:30 p.m. Monday. Each one sought a Swift employee on suspicion of forgery and criminal impersonation. According to the affidavits, special agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Denver office investigated Swift since summer.On July 31, ICE special agent Richard Goldsberry received copies of employment documents for all employees working for Swift as of July 18. Agents used information from those documents to track down workers who had used someone else’s information to get jobs. Agents were often able to compare driver’s license photographs of U.S. citizens with those working at Swift under the same name.
Federal Trade Commission records provided another clue for investigators. Records often listed residences in states such as Texas, Utah and California for employees working in Greeley. In many cases, the people who actually live in those distant locations had filed complaints after they learned from a credit agency or the Internal Revenue Service of back taxes or jobs with companies where they’d never worked.
Swift accepted Luis J. Pena’s application on Oct. 30, 2003, and made copies of his Social Security card and Colorado driver’s license. The problem was, ICE agents found, the real Pena lives in Arizona. He works in Nogales as a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Pena told agents he requested a copy of his credit report in 1998 or 1999 and learned someone had used his information to get jobs with companies he’d never heard of.
A woman claiming to be Theresa Sanchez provided Swift with a Social Security card and Colorado I.D. on April 8, 2005. The FTC shows Sanchez actually lives in Texas and filed a complaint after she got a letter from the IRS. The letter said the agency was holding her $5,400 refund because she had failed to report $120,000 in wages since 1996. Sanchez told ICE she had never lived in Colorado. The FTC said someone used her information for jobs, college and to receive unemployment benefits.
Sanchez told an agent she stands about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. The woman suspected of impersonating her is 5 inches shorter and 10 pounds lighter. Sanchez said the suspect may have gotten her personal information from an ex-husband.
The cases go on and on.
Normal Business, “so why do you buy swift foods”?
ID Theft,Has been going on for over 30 years, so what? “its all part of the North American Union plan”, Soon we will all be part of the ideals of Mexico, and HELL people you don’t need No ID’S In mexico right?
see North American Union and Alex Jones
Understand The Business and see the facts in front of you or become Mexico.
The really lousy part of this is that I’ve heard they have no intention of deporting or jailing any of the people arrested. Swift can not claim ignorance because their payroll department had to make out paychecks to all of these people and track who worked what hours, so to claim they didn’t know that many of them were using the same Social Security number is a flat our lie. It’s time for the US Government to actually do what it was set up to do, protect the CITIZENS of THIS country.
They are trying to arrest those who are smuggling all these ilegal aleins in here then let the ilegal aleins stay that make absolutly no sense:eek:
2, FAO, Ch2, the CBS TV affiliate in Cedar Rapids, IA, was wringing their hands at 90 employees of the Marshalltown Swift plant being held in Des Moines at a Camp, but I forgot the name of the camp. CH2 also had a story about the kids hiding out at the school so they don’t have to go back. Again, who says the media doesn’t have an agenda?
Perhaps if a few journalists get beheaded by terrorists who snuck in over the Mexico border, they might change their tune. I doubt it, but one can always hope.