Posted on 12/29/2007 9:10:00 PM PST by Bluestateredman
Dream turns nightmare Arrests of immigrants rattle Milford Maria Sacchetti Globe Staff / December 29, 2007 MILFORD - Daniel Tacuri made a name for himself in this town.
Daniel Tacuri , 32, was a typical immigrant who found success through hard work, Tacuri's lawyer and family say.
ARRESTED more stories like thisWith only a first-grade education, he slipped across the border illegally and eventually started his own roofing business, often hiring immigrants like himself from poor villages in Ecuador. He was raised in a dirt-floor cabin, but in Milford he owned a home worth more than $350,000 off Main Street, along with a small fleet of four vans, a truck, and a jeep.
Before dawn on Dec. 7, federal agents burst into Tacuri's home and arrested him and 14 others for being here illegally, according to relatives. A total of 21 immigrants were arrested following a months-long investigation, but only Tacuri is facing federal criminal charges, for allegedly employing and sometimes housing undocumented immigrants.
The arrests sent a shiver through a town where the Ecuadoran population has swelled from a few people to about 2,000 in recent years. And it has revealed conflicting portraits of Tacuri, one of the pioneering immigrants whom others followed to Milford.
Authorities say Tacuri built his business by exploiting illegal immigrants, including one as young as 13. At its peak, they said, he had 80 employees, some of whom rented rooms in his house. A few workers told authorities that Tacuri did not withhold taxes or pay them overtime.
But his lawyer and family say Tacuri, 32, was a typical immigrant who found success through hard work. He never had more than a dozen employees, some legal and some not, and he did not hire minors, they said. Only relatives lived in...
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boo hoo.
How many times did Mr. Tacuri go to the Emergency Room for routine medical care and fail to pay, leaving the tab to the taxpayers? And what about his children, getting a free education at the public expense?
But his lawyer and family say Tacuri, 32, was a typical immigrant who found success through hard work.
I consider this sentence an insult. My parents came here legally and were forced to pay for these people. But yet, according to the racists at The Boston Globe, there is no difference between illegals and legals.
I will cheer and clap the day that The Boston Globe and The New York Times go bankrupt.
I’m all broken up, this guy gets a free ride back to Equador with all the profits he made by exploiting his fellow illegal.
Not only is he illegal but he provides employment sanctuary for other illegals?
Yeah, right, Globe. That’s exactly more of what we want here.
How about moving them into your neighborhood, then we’ll check back with you to see how it’s going?
Now he pays those bullies sub minimum wage under the table to undercut legitimate roofing companies.
The democrats and the MSM are always wailing about stagnant wages for the working poor and middle class. Illegal immigration is the reason. How in the world can a legitimate roofer pay his crew a decent wage when competing against Ecuadoran slave labor?
Academics and politicians blame globialization for wage stagnation. Globalization certainly is part of the reason, however illegal immigration is likely the primary cause. Wake up America.
“Daniel Tacuri , 32, was a typical immigrant....he slipped across the border illegally”
What an insult to REAL immigrants...
I’m an immigrant and I didnt sneak across the border illegally... I jumped through all the hoops just like other REAL immigrants do...
“Even the town police saw him as a community leader, and regularly reached out to Tacuri for help educating Ecuadorans about the town’s rules. But in May, after increasing concerns about his business, police officer Joseph Sherus reported Tacuri’s operation to immigration officials.
Chief Thomas O’Loughlin said police do not enforce immigration laws, but they reported Tacuri to federal authorities on numerous occasions on concerns that they were exploiting low-wage workers. Also, he said, town officials had cited him two months earlier for using his home as an illegal boarding house.”
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I’m betting that there’s a good deal the Boston Glob is not sharing with us. So this Tacuri gent was a community pillar, yet the local police decided to drop dime on him, for all that they respected him?
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“Wilson Valdez, owner of Unienvios, a variety store on Main Street, said the arrest of someone as prominent as Tacuri is unnerving for immigrants. Some are getting ready to leave, which he said could hurt the town.”
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I’m flummoxed. Someone in ICE is actually using his head. Take down the jefe who thought himself untouchable and the message is sent to all others who also happen to be illegal. No matter how many years you spend here, own property, have kids, etc. you will never be too “big” to be arrested and deported.
“country is tilting toward an insurrection....”
What do you see as likely?
People like those on FR are very reluctant to confront the police and the military.
The same can be said for cocaine dealers.
1807: “But without black slaves, who will pick our cotton cheaply?”
1907: “But without child workers, who will weave our textiles cheaply?”
2007: “But without illegal aliens, who will mow our lawns cheaply?”
HAR!! An illegal alien exploiting other illegal aliens!
Get ‘em all outta here.
“I will cheer and clap the day that The Boston Globe and The New York Times go bankrupt.”
That day may not be all that far off.
If i see our very laws used against us as I see the immigration ridiculousness played out, then, really what else is there? To accept the will of the sheep? At the detriment of your and my family? No.
That's probably when the dream started turning into a nightmare.
Even the town police saw him as a community leader, and regularly reached out to Tacuri for help educating Ecuadorans about the town’s rules.
Oh, yeah! I can imagine how that went about. I can imagine the police "regularly" visiting him to request that he provide this education to his boarders and employees about the town's rules. How much trouble did the people put up with before they got fed up and started calling the police? How many times did the police regularly visit him before it came to this?
I am in awe of the Boston Globe's ability to look this problem square in the face and see a fairy tale.
We talk a lot about illegal immigrants - how about talking about the U.S. taxpayer-blessed governing elites of the wretched countries they come from?
We have family in South America - I once asked a maid there (age 50) why she voted for candidate so-and-so in the election. The answer: “Before he was in office, my family had to sleep on straw; now we have a mattress”. Nice.
According to the fools at the Boston Globe, the essence of their perverted understanding of the "American Dream" is for someone to pay human traffickers, illegally sneak across the border, commit identity theft and tax fraud, hire other illegal aliens at low wages, commit other crimes, and get away with it for many, many years.
That's certainly not my understanding of the American Dream...
So, that sets up a three-way confrontation, with some people trying to get rid of the illegals, and the police and military protecting the illegals.
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