Mishawaka: Immigration agents raid Indiana plant

[hippiechick]

So do the companies get fined or something for hiring illegals, too ?

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/LOCAL/703070480

Immigration agents raid Indiana plant

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- An immigration raid at a factory that makes Fiberglas-reinforced plastic products led to the arrests of 36 workers suspected of being undocumented aliens. More than 50 agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided Janco Composites on Tuesday with a warrant that allowed them to interview workers and check their records.

ICE spokeswoman Gail Montenegro said 36 workers -- 35 of them Mexican nationals, and one from El Salvador -- were arrested. They were taken away in large bus to a Broadview, Ill., center where customs agents interviewed and fingerprinted them.

The arrests come more than three weeks after Etzel Ortiz Partida, 27, was arrested, accused of using someone else's Social Security number to gain and keep her job at Janco, where she was hired in 2001, along with obtaining an Indiana driver's license and ID card.

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[salin]

1. the immigration law of 1986 includes fines for employers.

I have no idea whether or not those are regularly enforced. Good question.