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Monday, February 25, 2019

Illegal Aliens Arrested in Workplace Raid Sue Fed Agents for Racial Profiling

Represented by an extremist nonprofit that lists conservative organizations on a catalogue of “hate groups,” seven illegal immigrants detained in a workplace raid are suing the federal agents that arrested them, claiming that they were racially profiled for being Latino.

In a federal court complaint filed this week by their pro bono attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the illegal aliens assert that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violated their Constitutional rights against illegal seizures and to equal protection under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The raid occurred last spring at a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in a small rural town called Bean Station in east Tennessee. Agents from ICE and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) raided the facility as part of a lengthy investigation into the owner’s multi-million-dollar tax evasion and fraud scheme. About 100 illegal aliens were arrested, most of them from Guatemala and Mexico and some had been previously deported from the U.S. more than once. At least 54 people were deported immediately, some were released and others faced federal or state charges, according to a local news report following the seize.

The owner of the business, James Brantley, eventually pled guilty to multiple federal crimes, including tax fraud, wire fraud, and employment of unauthorized illegal aliens. The feds say he avoided paying nearly $1.3 million in taxes by hiring at least 150 illegal aliens and paying them off the books in cash. The scheme began in 1988 and continued through 2018 when he got busted. Brantley had reported to the IRS that he had only 44 wage-earning employees, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). To avoid Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax obligations, unemployment insurance premiums, unemployment tax and workers’ compensation insurance premiums he paid illegal immigrants in cash at a rate of $8-$10 per hour.

The feds said it was a criminal investigation from day one, not simply an immigration enforcement action as many open borders activists alleged. “Tax fraud is an outrage to hard-working Americans directly harmed when criminals cheat their obligation to society by failing to pay their fair share, and the employment of illegal workers also poses a serious threat to public safety as the use of fraudulent identity documents exposes Americans to potential identity theft and other financial harm,” said the special agent from ICE Homeland Security Investigations who led the probe.

Leftist groups went ballistic, asserting that illegal immigrants were victims whose “rights” were violated by the federal government.

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7 comments:

  1. It's not "racial profiling", it's "Nationality Profiling". Just because they all look similar doesn't mean that they were being targeted by any racial qualification. No, it's their nationality status.

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  2. "Illegal Aliens Arrested in Workplace Raid Sue Fed Agents for Racial Profiling"

    You can bet some Trump hating Libtard Politician convinced those illiterate Illegals to do this because most are too stupid to know about suing.

    Any judge should throw this out of court and sentence these illegals and their attorneys to hard time, then deport them all to the Middle East.

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  3. There is no such thing as racial profiling when they are doing their job and they were right.

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  4. If you want to see something hilarious ride up into Sussex county, Georgetown area and watch the "citizens" scatter when they see the immigration vehicles doing surveillance

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  5. The lawyer that filed this case to clog up the system should loose his license.

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  6. Another monumental waste of $$.

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  7. How can it be racial profiling when they fit the description of people committing a crime by sneaking across our border? Anything to stop us from enforcing the laws on this great nation. Keep pushing us.

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