Fooled Ya HA HA!-----Via ABCNews 3 hours ago: ICE agents conducting immigration raid at corporate farm in Cali.. Video

Good find.

Prosecutor the organized crime syndicates (aka “employers”) involved is a lengthy and expensive process. Prosecutors have to get witnesses, and literally build a federal case. So they don’t always do it.

When they do, however, it tends to pay for itself. Asset forfieture means the home the cars and the business of the criminal employer go up for auction.

  • The Fed’s get their money back and
  • An honest businessman gets all his stuff and can take his place, often with really low overhead costs. Everybody wins! :blush: (Well, almost everybody.)

The farm apparently had underaged illegal aliens working and is now being investigated for violation of child labor laws.

But, but… there are no victims, Americans wouldn’t do the job!

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Youth unemployment in California is 20% (twice the national average.)

That is one state that REALLY does not need to be employing illegals
and the blood-sucking leeches who do, should be treated like the organized criminals they are.

30K unaccompanied minors cannot be located, maybe we just found a few. I’d be interested to know if they were living on the farm and had room and board deducted from their wages

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If they’re hiring illegal aliens, where is the IRS and why are they not doing their job that was agreed to in 1986? This is one of the root causes of why we’re having this problem yesterday, today and probably tomorrow. Our government is NOT DOING THEIR DUTY!

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The problem has aways been the issue of “knowingly” hiring illegal aliens. Given the regs around I9’s, hard to prove (and made so purposefully)

That would be harboring (at least) and maybe human trafficking . . . a very serious crime

As with any crime, the key is getting a witness to turn and testify, which is probably easy to do, (“you and your family can stay if you testify”) but then the witness has been given inducement

and depending on what they could have been charged vs wages earned could fall afoul of slavery laws

and then you have questionable witness testimony vs documented evidence.

Like I said, hard to prove (purposefully so)

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Probably paying them under the table imo.

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Child labor on pot farm.

Not cool.

Newsom Protests ICE Raid on Marijuana Farm Allegedly Found Using Child Labor

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Probably couldn’t trust white boys around there plants/pot.

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That could be but it doesn’t negate that this is what the IRS agreed to do in 1986 and they are NOT fulfilling their end. If they are illegal, the business should not be hiring them. If there’s a pattern, then use it as evidence to prosecute the business.

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Yup as young as 14

At the cannabis facility, investigators found nine unaccompanied migrant children, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital on Friday, updating earlier reporting that eight such children were there. She added, “So glad our law enforcement could rescue another child.” Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said Thursday the facility was “under investigation for child labor violations.”

He posted a photo to X on Friday afternoon captioned: “These are the juveniles found in the marijuana facility - almost all unaccompanied, one as young as 14. California are you ready to partner with us to stop child exploitation?” . . .

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Not arguing what should be, only stating what is. The form used to show a person is eligible to work is the I9, the rules when filling it out are strict. You must accept whatever document is offered, you can know its fake, doesn’t matter, you have to take it, write down the information and give it back. If you don’t use e-verify, maybe a couple years later you get a letter from the IRS informing you there’s a problem and instructing you to et other documentation, which you then have to take, dutifully write down, and continue. Even with e verify, which may take a couple months instead of a year or more, you still take whatever document they bring you to replace what was wrong. You cannot refuse a document, you cannot question the document.

It’s my contention that a conglomerate of high tech wizards could put together a bulletproof e-verify system. The burden is on the fedgov to supply it, if they are going to require verification. It needs to be relatively simple to use for the employer. Plug in the info from the guy you are hiring. Let the system spit back approval or rejection. Save the approval notification. Hire the the guy. (Or tell him to walk away if he gets rejected.) With the acceptance notification saved, the employer is safe from any government action against him.

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i’ve only hired abput 10 people in my life (part of a nonprofit I used to run.)
All of them were legal so I don’t know what happens when they are not.

I heard it reported last night that one of the people running or owning the farm had at some point donated 10,000 to Newscum’s campaign.

Just a coincidence that Newscum is supporting the pot growers of course. :roll_eyes:

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I’d like to see the LA Mayor arrested for giving money to Illegals, unless she opens HER OWN purse which I doubt she will.

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