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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI. C. E. hit 100 7-11 stores this morning
Immigration agents raid dozens of 7-Elevens as Trump administration moves to crack down on businesses with undocumented workers
The pre-dawn sweep by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents comprised about 100 convenience stores across the United States. Nearly two dozen people were arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally, though officials said the audits are intended to target managerial hiring practices.
Such operations are a growing priority for the Trump administration and will be carried out more frequently, investigating companies large and small, officials said.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/01/10/immigration-agents-raid-dozens-of-7-elevens-as-trump-administration-moves-to-crack-down-on-businesses-with-undocumented-workers/?utm_term=.a8a1ffffd91c
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)*
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Many of these franchise/management-type convenience store operations are involved in very difficult, complicated - and dangerous - jobs no one wants!
Convenience store employment is like being in a war zone.
not at all. It's much like picking fruits and vegetables, the targets are taking jobs from white kids
stupid assholes
burnbaby
(685 posts)I have to bring out divorce papers to prove who I am, along with my birth certificate and license. I hope we punish their employers
Most of the time it's the individual that suffers all of the consequences while the business maybe gets a written warning.
Orrex
(63,233 posts)I've had similar thoughts over the years, but your solution is right to the point.
If it's a crime to work illegally in the US, then it should a crime to employ such workers. And when the business owners protest that they didn't know, then they're guilty of failing to perform due diligence. For comparison, if a bar owner accepts a fake ID from a minor, then the bar owner is at fault. The same should apply here.
Ms. Toad
(34,117 posts)(Personally, I have a problem with the I-9 laws - but they do target the employers.)
Orrex
(63,233 posts)Those penalties seem kind of meager IMO. I'd vote for revocation of citizenship for repeat offender employers!
At the very least, they should face consequences at least commensurate with those dropped on the employees.
Ms. Toad
(34,117 posts)but also against employers who merely refuse to document right-to-work status for reasons of conscience.
The law was challenged by one of the religious/social justice organizations that works against race/ethnic origin based discrimination that I am associated with on the national level. The challenge was because the law (and enforcement thereof) will likely be used as a tool for discrimination and enforced only when the employees are ethnically "unwelcome" (similar to "Show me your paper" laws that permit law enforcement in certain states to demand identification, with demands primarily being made of people with brown skin (citizen or not) who speak with an accent. My father was the US citizen who refused to complete the I-9 documentation in order to permit the entity to challenge the law (for employing him without demanding documentation).
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/26/opinion/navarrette-arizona-law-court/index.html
Ms. Toad
(34,117 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,860 posts)It is unlawful to hire people who can't meet the I-9 requirements. However, the owner does not have to I-9 himself since he is not an employee, but an owner.
BTW, these undocumented owners often are providing jobs for people who do meet I-9 requirements.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)The world hates his guts.
Orrex
(63,233 posts)I'd hate to think that some evil, undocumented "illegal" might be ringing me out for a Slurpee.
sorry but it gave me a chuckle
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I'd feel much better with a surly recent college grad who's just there until he gets his first programming job.
LeftInTX
(25,607 posts)They come for visits legally and they overstay their VISAS.
I know a DACA recipient who is going to college, but said if it wasn't for DACA she would be working at a convenience store. Her parents came when she was one. She has never been to India.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)that will piss off the big checkbooks over tRump.
Of course, they may never get to Walmart and Koch Industries.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Freethinker65
(10,070 posts)The employees are not the problem
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)So, at least 75 of the stores raided had zero, zip, nada.
Awesome waste of scarce resources, fellas.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)Let's say it takes 12 people to staff a 7-11 around the clock. The 7-11 company is a franchisor, so if one franchisee with two locations hired only undocumented people to staff his stores, that would account for all of them.
Be real: an operator who knows how to use eVerify really well is NOT going to have undocumented workers on the floor. And an operator who starts hiring undocumented workers is going to decide pretty quickly he only wants to hire undocumented workers - they're cheaper and you can do just about anything you want to them right up to requiring frequent sex as a condition of employment.
kairos12
(12,882 posts)"sarcasm"
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)just trying to earn a living...or no wait, right they're 'stealing' those jobs from Americans.
If I hear ONE MORE TIME all the job stealing whilst the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE is the basement I'm gonna fucking SCREAM.
I DESPERATELY want there to be a shortage of workers who are doing jobs Americans don't give a rats ass about.
Racist Americans need TO SUFFER. I WANT THEM TO SUFFER.
This has got me very very angry...I really wish I owned a punching bag.
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)Anon-C
(3,430 posts)They've earned it. Not trying to paint with a broad brush, but my experience is that exactly the kind of people you imagine would be willing to do that work, are doing that work.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)kacekwl
(7,024 posts)he got all the murders and rapists off the street. Bad hombres trying to make a living . Idiot.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)The nicest stranger I ever in my life met worked at a 7-11 in Staunton, VA. I think he was from Senegal.