For the first time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently put together co-ordinated busts of every single facility operated by a particular company making pallets in something like 36 different states. Not only were somewhere around 50% of the company's employees found to be illegal aliens, thus rounded up and given a free one way trip to Mexico City, but company executives were charged with felony 'aiding and abetting' charges potentially involving huge fines and long jail terms.
This, and other recent high profile illegal alien busts, has kicked off a round of fear reactions among illegal aliens working at other types of jobs that if they show up for work they could be next on the ICE bust list.
(snip)"Len Mills, executive vice president of Associated General Contractors of South Florida, estimated at least 50 percent of workers on construction jobs in the region had not shown up for work. (snip)
Rumors of random sweeps were rampant from coast to coast Friday, prompting many immigrants to stay home from work, take their children out of school and avoid church. Their absences added to immigrants' fears, as some thought their friends and co-workers had been arrested."(snip)
This has in turn trickled down to some employers of illegal aliens realizing that their ability to meet contractual time and budget price commitments is actually dependent on workers who could disappear tomorrow.
(snip)Associated General Contractors of South Florida VP Len Mills again ..
"This is costing millions of dollars a day, and I don't know who is going to pay for it," he said."(snip)
This is obviously part of an organized program by ICE and other federal agencies to vastly increase the 'profile' of illegal alien bust efforts ...
(snip)"By increasing the frequency and severity of punishment for employers, ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are hoping to offset the financial incentive [for the would-be employer of illegal immigrants - sic] of hiring workers outside the legal tax and benefit systems. ICE and DHS have clearly realized that one of the most important ways to curtail illegal immigration is to eliminate the reward of a stable, profitable job [for the would-be illegal immigrant - sic]. Reducing the financial incentive is understood to be an essential key to reducing illegal immigration."(snip)
Things could get even more interesting this coming monday, where huge illegal alien protests are scheduled in many American cities ...
"Many wondered whether the rumors [of illegal alien arrests - sic] would deter people from national immigration protests planned for Monday.
The National Immigration Law Center called on organizations nationwide to sign a petition urging ICE to assure the public it won't make any immigration arrests during the protests.
The agency said its policy is not to discuss potential operations. "ICE will continue to operate as it does every day of the year," Boyd said."
Bottom line would appear to be that while the US congress continues to bicker over illegal alien workers and the border issue, that ICE is pursuing a very effective policy aimed squarely at the financial equiation of companies choosing to employ illegal aliens. If would-be employers of below market wage illegal aliens persist, they face not only the potential criminal penalties, but much more importantly they face the unexpected major disruption of their own business activities, with major consequences to future business/profits due to failures to deliver on time and/or failures to deliver at low prices while still turning a profit, when their illegal alien workers are busted or simply don't show up for fear of being busted.
This is expected to directly translate into higher future grocery bills, higher future construction costs, higher costs of 'low technology' products and services which have traditionally relied on illegal alien cheap labor to keep prices down.
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