Agriprocessors, Inc., continues to make meaningful progress in addressing the challenges presented by the worksite enforcement action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies on May 12, 2008.
According to Chaim Abrahams, a company representative, Agriprocessors is concentrating its efforts on production. . “We were able to bring the plant back into operation the next day, and even though we’re not running at full capacity, we are able to resume production,” Abrahams said. “We are in the process of replacing workers so we can avoid any interruption of meeting customer needs for high quality products.”
Abrahams also noted that the company was in the process of enhancing its immigration compliance procedures.“We are working with experts in immigration compliance to help us bolster our compliance efforts to employ only properly documented employees,” he said. “We have signed up for a government electronic verification program, and are working with our consultants on additional compliance measures that will enhance our hiring process.”
Agriprocessors also has launched an independent investigation into the circumstances which led to the worksite enforcement action, and is cooperating fully with the government. “We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families whose lives were disrupted and wish them the best,” Abrahams said.
(Press Release Submitted to YWN by Lubicom)
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“….and even though we’re not running at full capacity,”
Who are they kidding?
They didn’t shecht any beef Tues, Weds, Thurs.. and only shechted 10% of their normal chickens volume this week.
They are still looking for 450 employees, offering $11/hr, which is 40- 50% above what they were paying last week. So even when they get more employees, their cost of production is up.
Where will that cost come from? Our pockets.
Great, a press release by Lubinsky. As long as he gets paid, he will say anything for his client. When Ben Brafman gets involved in representing the principals in a criminal proceeding then we might see the truth emerge.
“When Ben Brafman gets involved in representing the principals in a criminal proceeding then we might see the truth emerge.”
Alavay!!!
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I do not believe the any of the shochtim or mashgiachim were 13 year old mexican illegals so I don’t really know how the kashrus standards were affected, but perhaps you know more than I about Rubashkin (Which is highly unlikely.) Perhaps you may not understand, but employers are required to ask for ID and a social security number. If they look reasonably the employer is not required to hire a private security firm at $300-$500 a pop to do extensive background checks. The major problems are as follows:
1) There are no gangs in Iowa.
2) Iowa is not a border state.
3) There is no major drug smuggling in Iowa.
Those may not sound like problems but there is a forth factor. There is a large contingent (obviously) of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents with nothing really serious do to. Needing to look busy in order to keep their jobs, they routinely round up illegal aliens who are found working 8-4 or 9-5 to support for their families, (and in turn put money back into the economy) instead of perhaps taking down a few drug dealers or violent machine gun wielding gang members which would have had a much more positive effect on society. Such was the case on December 13 2006 when the Iowa ICE raided swift Beef and Poultry in Marshalltown, Iowa and arrested almost 1300 people. While I do not attempt to justify illegal immigration, it really isn’t the illegals who work 8-4, doing jobs that most Americans don’t want to do that is threatening our society. It is the Illegals that don’t work or are involved in violent crime that should be the focus of major law enforcement efforts. However in the interim the bleeding heart liberals say we have to have compassion and provide foodstamps medicare etc. for the ilegals. Then we have to arrest the ones that want to work, so their families will be forced to go on public assistance or begin commiting violent crinme. We then pay for them to have a child in America. The child as an American entitles his parents to stay. (We can’t deport an American and we can’t deport the parents of a newborn and keep him here,) so everybody stays, on public support, and learns to vote Democrat when they eventually get citizenship, because that’s who kept them here. I personally think think that 90% of the ICE agents in Iowa should be transferred to LA where they might actually do something constructive.
More for the ICE.GOV website:
April 17, 2008-
91 Pilgrim’s Pride workers face criminal charges in ongoing identity theft probe than 300 employees arrested at five of the company’s poultry processing plants.
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March 05, 2008
Jury finds former member of U.S. Navy guilty of terrorism and espionage
NEW HAVEN, Conn.- Kevin J. O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and other federal officials today announced that a federal jury in New Haven, Conn., has found Hassan Abu-Jihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, 32, of Phoenix, Ariz., guilty of providing material support of terrorism and disclosing previously classified information relating to the national defense. The verdict was returned this afternoon. The trial before United States District Judge Mark R. Kravitz began on Feb. 25, 2008.
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January 11, 2008
Former Officers Of A Muslim Charity, Care International, Inc., Convicted
BOSTON – Three men, a Libyan national and two Lebanese nationals, were convicted today in federal court of conspiring to defraud the United States and engaging in a scheme to conceal information from the United States government.
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December 5, 2007
U.S. Marine Corps officer pleads guilty to citizenship fraud
Lebanese immigrant committed marriage fraud to become a citizen, and then a military officer
DETROIT – A U.S. Marine Corps captain currently stationed in Okinawa, Japan, pleaded guilty here Tuesday to conspiring with a former FBI agent and CIA employee to commit citizenship and passport fraud. The plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy, Eastern District of Michigan; the case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Enforcement and the FBI.
Samar Khalil Spinelli, 39, entered her guilty plea to conspiracy and passport fraud before U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn. According to court documents, Spinelli (originally Samar Khalil Nabbouh) entered the United States from Lebanon on a student visa in 1989…
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This one might be interesting!
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November 19, 2007
QSI supervisor, employee sentenced for knowingly hiring illegal aliens
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A former worksite supervisor and a former employee for Quality Service Integrity Inc. (QSI) at the Cargill Pork Processing Plant in Beardstown, Ill., were sentenced to prison Monday for their roles in hiring illegal aliens to work for the cleaning service. The sentences are the result of a worksite enforcement operation conducted April 4 at the Beardstown plant by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Gerardo Dominguez-Chacon, 35, a former QSI worksite supervisor, was ordered to serve 38 months in federal prison. Maria Del Pilar Marroquin, 41, a former QSI employee, was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
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November 13, 2007
Former CIA and FBI employee pleads guilty to conspiracy, unauthorized computer access and naturalization fraud
DETROIT – Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old Lebanese national and resident of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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OK, so maybe they do something worthwhile after all.
Here’s another one off the ICE.GOV website. How come we didn’t see any of these on CBS, FOX or the NYTimes websites?
November 2, 2007
Abdullahu admits supplying guns and ammunition to illegal aliens involved in plot to attack Fort Dix
CAMDEN, N.J. – Agron Abdullahu pleaded guilty today to conspiring to provide firearms and ammunition to illegal aliens who allegedly plotted to kill U.S. soldiers at various installations, including the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.
Abdullahu, 25, of Buena Vista Township in Atlantic County, N.J., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler to a one-count Superseding Information. Judge Kugler continued the defendant’s detention and scheduled sentencing for Feb. 6.
Abdullahu was arrested on May 7, 2007, along with five others – three of them brothers – and charged in an alleged plot to kill as many soldiers as possible. At that time, Abdullahu was charged with aiding and abetting the illegal possession of firearms by illegal aliens.
My brother-in-law is a retired Customs special agent (that was before they became ICE). As he was fluent in Yiddish, he was often involved in wiretaps involving frum Jews conspiring to violate various customs laws. Often the Yiddish speaking Jews he heard on the wiretaps were active in the Orthodox Jewish community. Our teachers have to make it clear that violation of American laws is a Torah violation, too, and no one who dares to violate these laws can claim to be a frum Jew. They might as well shave their beards, join a Reform temple, and eat chazer while they’re running illicit activities as a source of income.