Posted on 06/24/2007 7:17:19 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Law enforcement officials infiltrated an organization that allegedly provided undocumented immigrants to Keppel Am-FELS in an operation that began several years ago and ended in May with federal indictments against two labor-lease corporations and two former employees. This is according to recently unsealed affidavits for search warrants, which were executed in 2004 at several lease-labor firms operating primarily from Brownsville Navigation District property.
Officials posed as undocumented workers, bought fraudulent documents and learned that an individual was offering jobs to undocumented immigrants if they paid up to $835. An anonymous caller told federal authorities that up to 100 un-documented immigrants were working the night shift at the oil-rig manufacturing company.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio unsealed the affidavits and search warrants on June 20, at the request of the U.S. At-torney’s Office. The information in the documents details how the government developed its case.
The two corporations, LAMC and CPEP, which do business as Port Fabricators, have ties to 357th state District Judge Leonel Alejandro. The companies were named in a 15-count indictment in May together with former employees Rolando Villanueva, 31, and Ernesto Casas, 33, of Brownsville.
The corporations, Villanueva and Casas are charged in the plot to provide undocumented workers to AmFELS from 1999 through 2006.
Alejandro is not charged in the alleged plot. He said in a previous interview that he helped start Port Fabricators and that the companies have cooperated with the authorities.
The affidavits signed by Richard A. Perez, senior special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, show that federal officials had received reports since January 2003 indicating that Amfels (as Keppel AmFELS was then known) hired a large number of undocumented immigrants.
The investigation kicked-off when state officials arrested an Amfels welder in July 2003 for selling fake documents to an undercover officer.
The welder said he obtained the documents from a man working at Amfels.
Keppel AmFELS’ Gilberto Elizondo, vice president of human resources, maintained in a statement to The Brownsville Herald on May 30 that the government’s indictment stemmed from an investigation that Keppel initiated in 2004.
Elizondo said the firm has cooperated fully.
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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Me, I like the term “wetbacks”. Its concise, descriptive, historically cogent, and definitely not “PC”.
Port Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Undocumented Americans is even worse!
INTERESTINGLY........ As a newly naturalized U.S. Citizen, I sent a letter to the President by e-mail with this Subject line: Immigration - Amnesty!
This is what I got as an answer:
".net 007: This e-mail message was undeliverable due to the following reason:
.net 016: The destination mail system refused to accept your e-mail message.
Note: This error message is usually due to the following: a. A mis-configured account.
b. The mail delivery system on the destination mail system. c. It could be caused by your message because some mail systems refuse messages with invalid header information, or if they are over a certain size.
Solution 1: If this is the first time the destination mail system refused to accept your e-mail message, attempt to resend the e-mail message again.
Solution 2: If the destination mail system has refused to accept your e-mail message multiple times, attempt to resend, or contact the recipient by alternate means and let them know about the issue.
Your message was rejected by mailhub-wh2.whitehouse.gov for the following reason:
5.2.3 Message size exceeds administrative limit
The following recipients did not receive this message: The following attachments have been removed from the bounce message: image001.jpg, image002.jpg !!
Looks like they are blocking the issues they don't like us to tell them about!!!
I prefer the more accurately descriptive “criminal invaders.”
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