Denver businesses fined over $8M total for knowingly hiring unauthorized workers: ICE

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Nothing yet about these dishonest blood sucking ghouls going to jail.

Too bad.
Well, it’s a start.

Looks like the fines are as low as $50k per worker and as high as $689k per worker.

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Nearly 150 unauthorized workers have been accounted for among three businesses in Colorado following workplace audits, resulting in more than $8 million in fines.

The fines are a result of “widespread employment eligibility violations,” ICE said.

The largest fine — $6,186,171 — went to CCS Denver after ICE discovered a 100% substantive violation rate and evidence of knowingly hiring and employing at least 87 unauthorized workers.

PBC Commercial Cleaning Systems had a 74% violation rate and at least 12 workers were hired and put to work without proper credentials, resulting in a fine of $1,599,510.

Green Management Denver was fined $270,195 after 44 authorized employees were identified, along with a 100% violation rate. . . .

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At the very least they should have to pay civil damages to every competitor and every under employed American in a three county area.

Plus face discrimination charges.

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Have to wonder if the administration is spinning up the next tactic to encourage illegals to self deport. Making a public show of targeting the employers with massive fines is a sure way to discourage hiring illegals in the first place. They are allowing ICE to coordinate with the IRS and Treasury. And these employers are sending in payroll taxes listed under TIN numbers for illegals they employee. It wasn’t enforced before, but those IRS and Treasury records are a paper trail right back to employers using illegal alien labor.

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I guess I can see the case for gradually turning up the heat.

It’s not the one I would have chosen, but it’s an approach that, in some cases, is the best approach.

The thing is I cannot imagine that someone runs a criminal enterprise like that, is then honest in all other dealings.

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They don’t think they are actually running a criminal enterprise. They are just ignoring the law.

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If a person has 30 employees (a successful landscaper or HVAC sales& repair with 10 crews) and one or two of the guys happen to be illegals who sneaked through, and one or two are illegals about whom they turned a blind eye . . . you might be right.

Now picture Elliot Ness walking through a storefront and in the back room THE ENTIRE OPERATION is built around hiring nothing but illegals.

I think most of us can see the difference.

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I have long said that if businesses hiring illegals were heavily fined that those jobs would dry up for illegals and they would self deport.

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It didn’t.

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CCS Denver, Inc-janitorial

PBC Commercial Cleaning Systems, Inc-janitorial

Green Management Denver-janitorial? Delinquent since 2022.

Who is going to do these jobs?

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Legal competitors.

The same decent honest business families these thieves have been suffocating for years.

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Where does all that money go? (The money collected from fines.)

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:rofl: No such animal. Who is going to pay 3-4 times for office cleaning?

Who is going to hire on to do the work and how well?

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For the record, I would not hold an employer liable if e-verify approved the employee.

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It’s called supply and demand
and it works in every industry.

  • “Nobody wants to be a welder for $X an hour, Hmm How can I possibly convince people to work at my job site?”
  • “Nobody wants to be a vegetable picker for $Y an hour, Hmm How can I possibly convince people to work on my farm?”
  • “Nobody wants to be a coal miner for $Z an hour, Hmm How can I possibly convince people to work in my mine?”

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Except the reality is even worse than that.

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You are IMAGINING.
You are saying things you KNOW TO BE FALSE.

To get office cleaners and housekeepers in Denver one does not need to pay 3-4 times the going rate.

For office cleaners, pay 1.2 times or 1.5 times the Walmart rate and you’ll get plenty of workers.

You know that

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I voted for this!

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That was the agreement made in 1986 when we legalized 12 million illegals but it went by the wayside and has not been enforced. It’s about time it was.

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I’m not aure what you mean.

The reality is the people willing to do janitorial jobs for anywhere near the wages paid to illegals have worse issues than being illegal.

And nobody will pay 4X what they are currently paying for those services.

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Those are 4X the current rate. If they can make 1.5X Walmart, why aren’t they working in Walmart now?

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I think you’re missing it (deliberately?? I dunno)

If Walmart workers are making $18 now in Colorado (they are)
And some employer wants to hire them, or people like them away to clean offices,
that person does not need not pay
4 x $18 =$72/hour to get them to do that.

All that employer needs to do is pay them
1.4 x $18 = $25.20/hour.
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Same basic deal if your trying to convince a retiree to work part-time while retired, or convince a young dad to take a second job.

It does not take $72 an hour an you know it.

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