Jury finds SD man guilty of hiring illegal workers (illegal immigrants, prison, suspect)

[JDubsMom]

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A South Dakota man is facing a possible 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of hiring illegal workers.

A jury found 55-year-old Donald Stangeland, of Flandreau, S.D., guilty of one count of transporting an illegal immigrant and two counts of harboring illegal immigrants last week in U.S. District Court in Sioux City.

Prosecutors say Stangeland hired illegal immigrants to build grain bins in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota in 2007, knowing the workers were in the U.S. illegally.

www.chicagotribune.com

The hammer continues to fall . . . .

[Ellie C.]

I hope he gets the maximum sentence. This is where the battle needs to be fought as long as the federal government continues to sit on it's hands.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Jobs Americans won't do? I did this job all through HS and part of College. It was one of the better paying jobs in the area.

Throw the book at that $shhat.

[ArizonaBear]

Ain't it amazing as the economy implodes that the hammer is falling harder and harder on the illegals and especially now their enablers?

I am being quite serious here: I really suspect we are going to approach the depths of the Great Depression of ca. 1938. Admittedly it was nothing like 1929-33 but still............

[JDubsMom]

Originally Posted by ArizonaBear

Ain't it amazing as the economy implodes that the hammer is falling harder and harder on the illegals and especially now their enablers?

I am being quite serious here: I really suspect we are going to approach the depths of the Great Depression of ca. 1938. Admittedly it was nothing like 1929-33 but still............

We are well on our way to a less severe depression. But as I stated before, if it forces our government to deport and close the door on all things illegal aliens/amnesty, I'm willing to suffer.

[jmking]

I can vouch that the Federal Government here in Washington look sideways at their jobsites where subcontractors hire illegals. The Feds indirectly employ illegals themselves and know it.

[antialphabet]

Originally Posted by JDubsMom

We are well on our way to a less severe depression. But as I stated before, if it forces our government to deport and close the door on all things illegal aliens/amnesty, I'm willing to suffer.

Other Americans will probably suffer a lot worse than you.

[ArizonaBear]

Originally Posted by antialphabet

Other Americans will probably suffer a lot worse than you.

Better to suffer without competing with illegal aliens.

Otherwise the repercussions against the latter may be very ugly.

[antialphabet]

I'm saying I don't wish for a depression, even if it does get rid of illegals. A lot of people will suffer worse than us during a depression. It's a little selfish to wish that some Americans go hungry so we don't have to deal with an annoyance.