SC poultry plant manager faces immigration charge

I originally found the link via NumbersUSA to this article in WRAL.com;

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The manager of a Greenville poultry plant has been indicted on a charge he knowingly hired illegal immigrants as the investigation into hiring practices at Columbia Farms took another step up the management ladder.

Barry Cronic began hiring illegal workers in 2000 and kept hiring them until a plant raid in October 2008, according to an indictment handed up Wednesday.

Last October, federal agents raided the plant during a shift change. Employees screamed and scrambled to get away, but agents blocked the entrances and found more than 300 workers who were in the U.S. illegally, most of them from Mexico or Central American countries, authorities said.

Golly gee, 300, that’s quite a few jobs that Americans could steal from illegals  if their gubmint checks were taken from them. 

Personnel manager Elaine Crump also was indicted Wednesday on a similar charge. She already faces 20 counts of telling workers to use falsified immigration documents and has pleaded not guilty.

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The South Carolina raid wasn’t the only big roundup of illegal immigrants in 2008.

In August, nearly 600 suspected illegal workers were detained at a Mississippi electrical manufacturing plant in the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history. Last May, federal immigration officials detained 389 people in a sweep through an Iowa plant of Agriprocessors Inc., one of the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouses.

Hey, even more jobs for Americans to steal.  Don’t give me that “jobs Americans won’t do” B.S.  Do away with handouts and you will see lines move from unemployment office to business lines.  Like I always say; no money, no food;  no money, no home; no money, no beer.

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A good laugh for tonite, an October 7, 2008 article about the raid, in NumbersUSA;

Witnesses to the raid say that the scene was chaotic. Nicole Freeman, a plant worker, said that some workers ran for the doors while screaming “ policía! ” and “ICE!”

Oh the visions in my head dancing around…