Posted on 04/04/2007 2:54:54 PM PDT by AuntB
Two of the nine suspected illegal immigrants detained Monday when they arrived for work at Hotel Bethlehem had criminal records, District Attorney John Morganelli said Tuesday.
Morganelli said Flor Rocha, of Falls Church, Va., was wanted in California for a dangerous drugs charge, but officials wouldn't extradite him back to California. Juan Carlos Hinjosa, of Springfield, Va., was wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after he was arrested in February 2005.
Morganelli said the subcontractor was a Virginia-based company which claims the men were individual contractors.
"We know that's just a way to avoid worker's compensation," Morganelli said. He added the title of individual contractor gives the company plausible deniability in immigration cases.
Morganelli said two of the men were able to get Bank of America credit cards under a new program where the bank does not require social security numbers or a credit history to open an account.
The cards listed the men's names with additional last names.
"Obviously they're not doing a good job identifying their customers," Morganelli said.
When county detectives asked for ICE's help, immigration officials asked detectives why they weren't apprehending gang members or drug dealers, Morganelli said.
"I'm very annoyed by this," Morganelli said. "Our office does not need to be questioned we expect (ICE) to do their job."
A recent government report found ICE has lost track of 623,000 fugitive aliens, Morganelli said.
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I get one or two solicitations per week from BOA, I got one in today’s mail. I scrawl on the app. “give this to a criminal alien” and send it back to them in their postage free envelope.
They got my card back 2 years ago in little tiny pieces.
Independent contractor is actually a way to get out of payroll tax.
Exactly. Commerce without concience. These outfits (like microsoft) ought to remember who brought them to the dance. But globalism is a great cover for accountability.
Way back when, if a company was unethical and non patriotic, their neighbors didn't patronize them and they went out of business and they had to answer to their customers. Now you're lucky if you can get a customer service rep who can speak English. Accountability? No one cares who they tick off when they're thousands of miles away and you have no idea who they are.
I think it's pretty sad that the 21st century modern, richest economy ever can only afford cheap foreign 18th century labor.
Sounds like a recipe for long term disaster to me.
I closed my three Bank of America accounts at the beginning of this month. If they can’t be careful with their own money by giving credit to illegal aliens, what in hell would make me think they would be more careful with mine?
They are being pretty careful according to what I have read, unless they are lying. They are issuing secured credit cards to the criminals, which means if one has a $500 credit limit, he must have $500 deposited with them that he can't withdraw.
I just don't like the idea of them enabling criminals in any way.
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