ICE raids 100 7-11 stores, catches 21 people

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven immigration agents filed into a 7-Eleven store before dawn Wednesday, waited for people to go through the checkout line and told arriving customers and a driver delivering beer to wait outside. A federal inspection was underway, they said.

Within 20 minutes, they verified that the cashier had a valid green card and served notice on the owner to produce hiring records in three days that deal with employees’ immigration status.

The well-rehearsed scene, executed with quiet efficiency in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, played out at about 100 7-Eleven stores in 17 states and the District of Columbia, a rolling operation that officials called the largest immigration action against an employer under Donald Trump’s presidency.

The employment audits and interviews with store workers could lead to criminal charges or fines. And they appeared to open a new front in Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement, which has already brought a 40 percent increase in deportation arrests and pledges to spend billions of dollars on a border wall with Mexico.

A top official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the audits were “the first of many” and “a harbinger of what’s to come” for employers.

“This is what we’re gearing up for this year and what you’re going to see more and more of is these large-scale compliance inspections, just for starters,” said Derek Benner, acting head of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, which oversees cases against employers.

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Unlike other enforcement efforts that have marked Trump’s first year in office, Wednesday’s actions were aimed squarely at store owners and managers, though 21 workers across the country were arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally.

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[Morphine Prince 110,032]

It will be interesting to see what other businesses they start targeting. 

Wonder if I’ll ever see a raid in person. 

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Is Trump Tower next? Mar-a-Lago?

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Were they randomly checking?  

 

[HBDYWM Stan 885]

First of all, most of these idiots wanting immigrants to leave for "stealing jobs" would never work at 7-11. I hope some of those same people try to get a  coffee before work and this stops their day. Terrible that a truck driver delivering to the store is being held up. It's ridiculous.

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This makes me wanna be sick.

 

We're all just humans trying to be happy.

 

These people have done nothing to harm others on their way to living a better life.