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Sheriff Joe Raids GNC Nutrition: 21 Illegals Using Stolen IDs (Including Those of Dead Americans)
Stand With Arizona ^ | 08-10-2012 | John Hill

Posted on 08/10/2012 2:08:49 PM PDT by montag813

by John Hill
Stand With Arizona

He's known as "America's Toughest Sheriff". But Joe Arpaio continues to show he deserves the moniker of "America's JOBS Sheriff". Because every time Sheriff Joe conducts a raid, he frees up jobs for legal American workers.

Yesterday was no exception, as Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies raided the large General Nutrition Corporation (GNC) distribution warehouse in Phoenix. GNC is the dominant retailer of nutritional supplements in the U.S., with stores across the country.

MCSO's Jeff Sprong says the vitamin distribution business employed as many as 21 suspects using false identifications to secure employment. Two suspects were using social security numbers belonging to dead persons, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.

About 30 MCSO deputies are involved in the operation. Arpaio says five people were arrested. One person was hiding in a women's bathroom, while another tried to hide under some type of equipment.  Someone familiar with the business tipped off the Sheriff's office last year about illegal immigrants using fake IDs.

"This is a big, big operation..over 1,100 stores on the west coast and Alaska and Hawaii..we're not done yet.  We have five in custody and will continue to look for the rest," Arpaio said.
MCSO officials have told SWA that all 5 workers arrested thus far were in fact illegal aliens. It was the sheriff's 59th such sweep. In the previous 58 employer sanctions/identity theft operations, 100% of all suspects found to be committing identity theft to gain employment were illegal aliens.  The Maricopa County Sheriff ’s office has  investigated, arrested on the  streets and in the jails over 51,000 illegal aliens.
"Illegal aliens are stealing identities of U.S. citizens to gain employment which escalates our unemployment problems. I  don’t  believe we should tolerate this. Furthermore, I will continue to enforce all federal and state illegal immigration laws in the business sector through human smuggling and crime suppression operations, despite activists and the federal government who may not like it,”  said the Sheriff.
See the video report here. Notice how the sniveling local reporter Mike Watkiss absurdly gives camera time to an illegal alien supporter who "sees nothing wrong" with illegals using the stolen identity of Americans - including those who are desceased. And of course he works in a mention of the absurd "racial profiling" lawsuit that was filed against Sheriff Joe.

Arpaio stresses that one of the benefits of these employer sanctions/identity theft operations is that they open up job opportunities for legal citizens.

For critics who insist that illegal aliens only take the jobs that Americans refuse to do, we remind them of the example in the news report below, where legal workers of all ages and backgrounds lined up for jobs at three Phoenix-area restaurants, after a major Arpaio raid removed 200 workers there:

"America's Jobs Sheriff" is on it. Don't you wish your local Sheriff worked as hard to free up jobs in your city or town? If they are not, let them know you want our laws enforced, and illegal aliens taken off the job. (You can find their contact info HERE).

Way to go, Joe!

Show you Stand With Joe by SIGNING HIS PETITION HERE.



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; arpaio; illegals; sheriffjoe
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1 posted on 08/10/2012 2:09:00 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

Thanks, Sheriff Joe, not only for all your hard work, but setting a good example.


2 posted on 08/10/2012 2:12:07 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Standing Wolf

Sherrif Joe for Prez!


3 posted on 08/10/2012 2:15:23 PM PDT by jag.drafting
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To: Standing Wolf

Sheriff Joe for Prez!


4 posted on 08/10/2012 2:15:33 PM PDT by jag.drafting
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To: montag813

Holder will go ballistic..................


5 posted on 08/10/2012 2:17:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: montag813

We should handle this like drug busts, seize and sell all equipment and assets in the operation. Would only take one or two employers having their business sold out from under them and they would all stop hiring Illegals.


6 posted on 08/10/2012 2:18:14 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: montag813

Would be interesting to hear from the Social Security folks.

I assume most of the time (unless there is Chicago type fraud) when a person dies, their account is closed?

Then suddenly years later SS “payroll tax” contributions start coming in under that number.

No red flags?


7 posted on 08/10/2012 2:21:16 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: montag813

Still waiting to see this in Texas...still waiting...still waiting...

Never mind, I forgot who our governor is.


8 posted on 08/10/2012 2:23:11 PM PDT by BobL (Cruz'd to Victory - July 31, 2012)
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To: montag813

... and in an unrelated news flash: Democratic voter roles have just dropped...


9 posted on 08/10/2012 2:23:46 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: Red Badger
Holder and obozo will not like this. GOOD!!! What??? because obozo commanded???? It will be interesting to see Holder try to prosecute the good sheriff for doing his job upholding the real law.
10 posted on 08/10/2012 2:26:54 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: montag813
Keeping American safe—something the POS in the WH won't do. In fact he is abetting criminals and should be charged with something.
11 posted on 08/10/2012 2:27:21 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer.)
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To: nascarnation; montag813

“MCSO’s Jeff Sprong says the vitamin distribution business employed as many as 21 suspects using false identifications to secure employment. Two suspects were using social security numbers belonging to dead persons, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.”

Somebody needs to raid a big white mansion in DC and arrest one of the occupants for using the social security number of a dead man.


12 posted on 08/10/2012 2:27:44 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: montag813
General Nutrition Corporation (GNC) distribution warehouse in Phoenix.

Bookmark

13 posted on 08/10/2012 2:27:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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To: montag813

GNC, a Pittsburgh company, headquartered at 300 6th. Avenue in the Golden Triangle.


14 posted on 08/10/2012 2:29:29 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“Then suddenly years later SS “payroll tax” contributions start coming in under that number.

No red flags?”

Why would the government want to investigate money coming in?


15 posted on 08/10/2012 2:30:27 PM PDT by I am bigjohn
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To: montag813
Good news, but unless the employer is also arrested, he'll just replace these folks with other illegals. Arrest and prosecute a few employers and things will really change.

It is hard and politically dangerous for elected sheriffs to go after employers, though.

16 posted on 08/10/2012 2:30:58 PM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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GNC DISTRIBUTION
1002 S 63RD AVE
PHOENIX, AZ 85043-4403
(623) 936-2020


17 posted on 08/10/2012 2:31:54 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

GNC DISTRIBUTION
1002 S 63RD AVE
PHOENIX, AZ 85043-4403
(623) 936-2020


18 posted on 08/10/2012 2:33:42 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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To: montag813

Most Credit Card companies can spot a stolen card in seconds and our bloated unconstitutional government cannot spot a bogus SS number?

Seems the government could shut down a major portion of the SS Department and pay the CC industry to do verification.


19 posted on 08/10/2012 2:37:54 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: montag813
Thanks to criminal, unscrupulous employers, illegal aliens have also taken over the distribution and warehouse industries and driven down the wages in those industries too.

Even the top management/supervisors in these industries are many times also here illegally, as the greedy employers have to hire bilingual Spanish speaking supervisors to communicate with their low wage illegal alien workforces.

20 posted on 08/10/2012 2:39:37 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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