Current Events > ICE arrests more than 100 workers in raid on meat supplier company in Ohio

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http://fox8.com/2018/06/19/ice-arrests-more-than-100-workers-in-raid-on-massillon-meat-supplier/

MASSILLON, Ohio Federal immigration officials on Tuesday raided a large meat supplier based in Massillon, Ohio, and arrested more than 100 workers suspected of using stolen or fraudulent identification to gain employment.

As many as 100 agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, US Customs and Border Protection and the US Border Patrol descended upon four facilities operated by Fresh Mark during the late afternoon raid.

The raid which was conducted with no prior notice to the business was the largest workplace enforcement action to take place under the Trump Administration, said Steve Francis, special agent in charge of ICEs Homeland Security Investigations unit, which oversees Michigan and Ohio.

Officials arrived with criminal and federal search warrants to collect documents on more than 200 employees. The warrants were served at Fresh Marks facilities in Salem, Massillon and Canton, Ohio.

ICE officials said the number of workers arrested was likely to climb once the operation concluded. Officials said some arrested workers could face federal charges for identity theft and/or reentry after deportation.

All of the workers who were arrested during Tuesdays raid worked at the companys Salem meat processing facility, said Francis. Most of the workers involved are from Guatemala, he said.

The companys web site indicates it employs more than 1,000 employees.

Francis said the raid was the result of more than a year-long investigation into Fresh Mark and its employees, and whether the company knowingly hired and harbored undocumented workers. He declined to offer further details.

Shortly after the raid began, Fresh Mark confirmed that representatives from the Department of Homeland Security were at its Massillon, Canton and Salem facilities. We will have more information as it becomes available, spokesperson Brittany Julian said in a statement.

The family-owned company sells meat products, such as bacon, deli ham, lunch meats and sausages under the brands Sugardale, Sugardale Food Service and Superiors Brand Meats to restaurants, delis, grocers and stadiums nationwide.

Francis said some of the workers who were arrested would be taken to detention centers in Michigan and Ohio, while others may be deported immediately. ICE said those who are detained will await removal proceedings. Other workers could potentially be released on humanitarian grounds, say if they are a parent of a young child who doesnt have immediate backup care in place, said Francis. In those cases, they would be given a notice to appear at an immigration court.

Work site raids have escalated dramatically under the Trump administration.

In October 2017, ICEs acting director Tom Homan said he had ordered the agencys investigative unit to increase enforcement actions at businesses by as much as fivefold.

Were not just talking about arresting the aliens at these work sites, we are also talking about employers who knowingly hire people who are unauthorized to work, Homan said at a press conference in Washington D.C., in December.

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Who is gonna do all that work now?
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So, uhm, is the meat supplying company going to be compensated for the loss of workers?
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Nice
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frozenshock posted...

So, uhm, is the meat supplying company going to be compensated for the loss of workers?

Don't think that's how insurance works
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Veggeta_MAX posted...

frozenshock posted...

So, uhm, is the meat supplying company going to be compensated for the loss of workers?

Don't think that's how insurance works

Depends. If they have IOB insurance that's exactly how it works although if they can prove he knowingly hired illegally then he won't get anything.
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Veggeta_MAX posted...

Who is gonna do all that work now?

Unemployed liberals with gender studies degrees of course

Tyranthraxus posted...

Veggeta_MAX posted...

frozenshock posted...

So, uhm, is the meat supplying company going to be compensated for the loss of workers?

Don't think that's how insurance works

Depends. If they have IOB insurance that's exactly how it works although if they can prove he knowingly hired illegally then he won't get anything.

Wait, is this for real? I thought I was just making a bad joke >_>
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frozenshock posted...

Wait, is this for real? I thought I was just making a bad joke >_>

And I was just playing along with it.
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frozenshock posted...

Tyranthraxus posted...

Veggeta_MAX posted...

frozenshock posted...

So, uhm, is the meat supplying company going to be compensated for the loss of workers?

Don't think that's how insurance works

Depends. If they have IOB insurance that's exactly how it works although if they can prove he knowingly hired illegally then he won't get anything.

Wait, is this for real? I thought I was just making a bad joke >_>

Veggeta_MAX posted...

frozenshock posted...

Wait, is this for real? I thought I was just making a bad joke >_>

And I was just playing along with it.

It's called interruption of business insurance and it's real.
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Welp if yall need a job I'm sure they are hiring in Ohio for some sort of meat conveyor belt job.
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Who wants to go to Ohio just to work ?

Hell the people who live there probably hates it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_interruption_insurance
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Also persecute the business if they knowingly hired these criminals.
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Who wants to go to Ohio just to work ?

Hell the people who live there probably hates it.

I hear Columbus is decent.
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As unfortunate as it is for the business, but they probably won't be able to find 100 workers to replace them. These jobs are not being sought by US citizens and these kinds of jobs rely heavily on immigrant workers.
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Fluttershy462 posted...

Also persecute the business if they knowingly hired these criminals.

They probably hire through a temp agency. If anything the temp agency should be guilty.
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ICE is America's Gestapo.
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You think they processed people through this meat factory? Those that didnt pay their cartel debts or something
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bump for morning CE
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Fair, next

Veggeta_MAX posted...

Fluttershy462 posted...

Also persecute the business if they knowingly hired these criminals.

They probably hire through a temp agency. If anything the temp agency should be guilty.

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oh god, this place is like an hour and a half away from me.
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Good
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