And yet, HERE IT IS AGAIN!!!
"Workers arrested in sweep of R.I. courts" by Associated Press | July 17, 2008
PROVIDENCE - Federal immigration agents arrested dozens of contracted maintenance workers Tuesday in raids on six Rhode Island courthouses.
A spokesman for the Rhode Island judiciary said the raids occurred simultaneously at about 5 p.m. and targeted workers for two cleaning and maintenance contractors hired by the state.
Craig Berke said the court system had forwarded information about the workers, who were not state employees, to State Police and to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement in early June.
"The investigation was initiated by the judiciary," Berke said. A spokeswoman for ICE confirmed the raids, although she did not say where they occurred or how many people were detained.
The raids sparked an angry protest outside ICE headquarters in Providence on Tuesday night. Juan Garcia, an activist, said the raids, which occurred in courthouses in Providence, Cranston, Warwick, Newport, and South Kingstown, were an outgrowth of an executive order by Governor Don Carcieri cracking down on illegal immigration.
Notice how they always cover the immigrant protests, even as they ignore the antiwar folk?
Not pushing an agenda or anything, though!
That order, signed in March, forces the state to verify the immigration status of all new government hires, as well as the employees of any company that does business with the state. It also directs the Rhode Island State Police and prison and parole officials to more aggressively find and deport illegal immigrants.
"All companies receiving money from the state will review the legal status of people," Garcia told The Providence Journal.""Judge is moved by roofer's plight" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | July 17, 2008
Daniel Tacuri, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador who built a prosperous roofing business in Milford though he could barely read or write, earned little sympathy from federal authorities last year when they charged him with employing and housing other illegal workers.
But last week Tacuri's personal story of overcoming poverty won the compassion of a federal judge in Worcester. After Tacuri pleaded guilty to harboring and hiring illegal immigrants Friday, the judge sentenced him to seven months' time served instead of the 15 months prosecutors had requested. Tacuri's lawyer had recommended eight months.
"I have to say that this is the single most sympathetic defendant that has come before me in my four years on the bench," said Judge F. Dennis Saylor, according to a court transcript. "It would be a hardhearted person who would not be at some level touched by this story."
Or a racist, right, Globe?
Of course, it is not like the illegals are gang members, rapists or CHILD rapists, etc.
They are all like this guy -- at least, that's what the pro-illegal, pro-North American Union, pro-Globalist Globe would have us believe.
Saylor said Tacuri "has suffered sufficient hardship." The father of two is bankrupt and facing deportation to Ecuador, along with his wife, Maria. Saylor said he did not sanction Tacuri's violations of immigration law, and he noted that in addition to the time served and a $2,475 fine, Tacuri is also facing deportation. But he said he was moved that Tacuri had overcome a life of poverty in Ecuador, came to the United States to work, and did not exploit his workers at Same Day Roofing, even though he had been exploited himself. Tacuri opened his home to relatives and some workers.
His lawyer, Raymond O'Hara, said Tacuri treated his workers well and paid them generously, unlike other operators in the area he said authorities did not pursue.
"The immigrant advocates told me that Mr. Tacuri was almost a hero within the immigrant community," O'Hara said. "He always paid on time."
Before he was sentenced, Tacuri spoke through an interpreter about the disbelief his family had expressed in the past at being charged as a criminal.
"I would like to ask for your forgiveness, because I did [not] realize that it was a crime in this country to actually feed people in need, and to give them a roof, and to share my table with them and my family," he said. "I would like to ask God for forgiveness. I would like to ask everyone for their forgiveness. That's all."
The US attorney's office declined to comment about the case."
I should, too, but WTF?!?!
So how many Americans were cut out of work by your hiring illegals, guy?!
I mean, pushing the Horatio Alger story about the illegal!!!
Yeah, the LAW don't mean nothing anymore, does it, Globe?
Can you tell I'm tired of the shit shovel, readers?
