Business Owners Sentenced for Employing Illegal Aliens, Employment Agency and Restaurant Owners Provided Jobs and Transp (medical, prison)

[Obey_The_Laws]

Business Owners Sentenced for Employing Illegal Aliens, Employment Agency and Restaurant Owners Provided Jobs and Transportation for Illegal Aliens to Work at Chinese Restaurants


http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2011/business-owners-sentenced-for-employing-illegal-aliens

Atlanta, Georgia – Chinese owned employment agencies and Chinese owned restaurants hiring scam was busted and the business owners were aressed and sentenced for abusing illegal aliens.

The business owners of employment agencies advertised in Chinese language newspapers. They hired only illegal aliens and worked the illegal alien’s long hours in poor working conditions and paid them less that prevailing wages in order to increase their profits.

According to the FBI and ICE they clearly took advantage of the illegal aliens by recruiting and exploiting them. The scammers also paid the illegals in cash to avoid detection and from paying income taxes. The investigation lead to 30 arrests of illegal aliens associated with the head hunters and Chinese restaurants.

Some of the perpetrators owned the employment agencies located in shopping centers that knowingly hired the illegal aliens and then charge them fees to hire them and to transport them to the job in a 15 passenger van. They kept the illegals in apartments nearby to avoid confrontations with the public and the law. In some cases the restaurant owners took money out of the illegal aliens low wage pay checks to cover commission and transportation.

Whenever the Chinese restaurant owners needed help with grunt work they called their Chinese employment agencies who were more than willing to provide them with cheap labor.

Those arrested and charged:

PILI CHEN, 56, of Norcross, Georgia, was sentenced to one year and four months in prison to be followed by three years’ supervised release.

AI LIN FU, 41, of Norcross, Georgia, was sentenced to one year and two months in prison.

SAU TING CHENG, 42, of Duluth, Georgia, was sentenced to 10 months in prison and a $3,000 fine.

LIANG FENG CHEN, 33, of Duluth, Georgia, was sentenced to two years’ probation, including three months of home confinement, and a $1,000 fine.

FU, CHENG, and PILI CHEN’s prison sentences are to be followed by three years of supervised release.

XIAN CHEN fled to Canada after the indictment and has been ordered extradited to the United States. XIAO PING LI remains a fugitive.

[chicagonut]

Good, the more these employers are caught and convicted the better. Note though that in this case it was proven that they "knowingly" hired illegal aliens and that is how a conviction is made.

[malamute]

This is a great way for the money-starved government to get money. No one is going to care if the employers of illegals are fined right off the face of the earth. Their assets should be seized if only to pay for all the free medical care their illegals used.

[FrugalYankee]

The fines are a joke! How much money did they make by doing this?

[MotleyCrew]

Did the illegal employees get deported? Or did they get a pass go from Homeland Security? Not sure if Obama cares about the Chinese vote in '12'.

[Obey_The_Laws]

The article didn't say whether the illegal aliens were deported or not. The fines are a joke and the Chinese aren't the only ones exploiting illegal aliens. I heard in Arizona building contractors pay their illegal alien grunt workers $3.00 an hour. Businesses like Tyson Foods and other meat packing plants use to pay American workers $19.00 an hour until the discovered they could pay an illegal aliens $8.00 an hour.

Since, the government is slow to charge business owners for hiring illegal aliens, I feel they published this case to make an example out of the Chinese (low voter base). Nancy Pelosi owns 900 restaurants I bet she has an illegal alien dishwasher or two.

Obama recently gave 300,000 illegal aliens permission to stay in the country and work when the Blacks have a 17% unemployment rate. It seems the government doesn’t care about any America.

Mexican restaurants are just as bad on exploiting illegal aliens, their own people. IMO they’re the worse because they know the language and do it more often for cheap labor and for their cause of importing Hispanics into the U.S. to take over America.

The politicians have made illegal alien immigration an expensive mess. They don’t have to pay a dime matter of fact we have paid them handsomely to make this mess for us. The only thing we can do now is to remove the current politicians from office and start over with some real Americans who care about America instead of their pocket books.

[Benicar]

Originally Posted by FrugalYankee

The fines are a joke! How much money did they make by doing this?

A joke indeed. This is precisely why illegal immigration continues to flourish. Illegal employers aren’t being punished. Heck, they probably accrue for these fines. In other words, it’s one of their projected business expenses. After the fines are paid, it’s just business as usual. Why should they mind an occasional slap on the wrist, if they can still make a huge profit?

[Obey_The_Laws]

It’s like one pharmaceutical company, the government found their drug had killed Americans and they’re force to take it off the market and pay a $400 million dollar fine. The drug company was happy and relieved because they made Billions and 400 million wasn’t anything to them. They still made a killing on profits. The government has to hit them where it hurts the pocket book! The politicians are controlled by campaign contributions from the drug industry.