Boss 302
Pursuit Driver
They were arrested working in 7 food processing plants. I can't help but wonder if these plants were using e-Verify or not. Most likely they weren't as many companies don't. I think many companies avoid using e-Verify so they can claim ignorance about their employees alien status. Whether they use it or not should be no excuse for those companies to avoid prosecution and fines. I'd like to see the fines be $10,000 for each illegal caught in their employ. In this case, it would be a total of $6.8 million. For the sake of discussion, let's say each of these plants had an equal amount of these illegals working for them. They'd each be fined more than $971,000, plus the embarrassment of harboring illegals. There are several of these plants in Gainesville. I've driven by them at times during shift change and nearly all of the employees are Hispanic. I often wonder how many of them are here illegally.