I. C. E. hit 100 7-11 stores this morning

[underpants]

Immigration agents raid dozens of 7-Elevens as Trump administration moves to crack down on businesses with undocumented workers

The pre-dawn sweep by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents comprised about 100 convenience stores across the United States. Nearly two dozen people were arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally, though officials said the audits are intended to target managerial hiring practices.

Such operations are a growing priority for the Trump administration and will be carried out more frequently, investigating companies large and small, officials said.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/01/10/immigration-agents-raid-dozens-of-7-elevens-as-trump-administration-moves-to-crack-down-on-businesses-with-undocumented-workers/?utm_term=.a8a1ffffd91c

[Wwcd]

1. I fucking hate him

*

[yallerdawg]

2. Serious profiling!

Many of these franchise/management-type convenience store operations are involved in very difficult, complicated - and dangerous - jobs no one wants!

Convenience store employment is like being in a war zone.

[HAB911]

20. Oh no

not at all. It's much like picking fruits and vegetables, the targets are taking jobs from white kids



stupid assholes

[burnbaby]

3. The business owners should get fine

I have to bring out divorce papers to prove who I am, along with my birth certificate and license. I hope we punish their employers

[tazkcmo]

6. Exactly

Most of the time it's the individual that suffers all of the consequences while the business maybe gets a written warning.

[Orrex]

10. That's a terrific idea.

I've had similar thoughts over the years, but your solution is right to the point.

If it's a crime to work illegally in the US, then it should a crime to employ such workers. And when the business owners protest that they didn't know, then they're guilty of failing to perform due diligence. For comparison, if a bar owner accepts a fake ID from a minor, then the bar owner is at fault. The same should apply here.

[Ms. Toad]

14. I-9 laws.

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/penalties

(Personally, I have a problem with the I-9 laws - but they do target the employers.)

[Orrex]

16. Thanks for that link.

Those penalties seem kind of meager IMO. I'd vote for revocation of citizenship for repeat offender employers!

At the very least, they should face consequences at least commensurate with those dropped on the employees.

[Ms. Toad]

23. The penalties apply against not only employers of immigrants -

but also against employers who merely refuse to document right-to-work status for reasons of conscience.

The law was challenged by one of the religious/social justice organizations that works against race/ethnic origin based discrimination that I am associated with on the national level. The challenge was because the law (and enforcement thereof) will likely be used as a tool for discrimination and enforced only when the employees are ethnically "unwelcome" (similar to "Show me your paper" laws that permit law enforcement in certain states to demand identification, with demands primarily being made of people with brown skin (citizen or not) who speak with an accent. My father was the US citizen who refused to complete the I-9 documentation in order to permit the entity to challenge the law (for employing him without demanding documentation).

But it's equally crazy, deeply offensive and profoundly un-American to do what Arizona did when it passed it's law. It put a target on a subset of the state's population based on physical appearance and required them to carry around documents proving their legal residency or U.S. citizenship just in case a police officer stops them and demands to see paperwork.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/26/opinion/navarrette-arizona-law-court/index.html

[Ms. Toad]

15. That's the point of the I-9 laws.

https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/penalties

[Sanity Claws]

18. I wouldn't be surprised if the owners are the ones who are undocumented

It is unlawful to hire people who can't meet the I-9 requirements. However, the owner does not have to I-9 himself since he is not an employee, but an owner.

BTW, these undocumented owners often are providing jobs for people who do meet I-9 requirements.

[Iliyah]

4. A lot of them are from India.

The world hates his guts.

[Orrex]

5. I feel safer already

I'd hate to think that some evil, undocumented "illegal" might be ringing me out for a Slurpee.

[burnbaby]

7. lol

sorry but it gave me a chuckle

[Dave Starsky]

21. Me, too.

I'd feel much better with a surly recent college grad who's just there until he gets his first programming job.

[LeftInTX]

8. It isn't unusual for undocumented Indians to work at convenience stores

They come for visits legally and they overstay their VISAS.

I know a DACA recipient who is going to college, but said if it wasn't for DACA she would be working at a convenience store. Her parents came when she was one. She has never been to India.

[Sancho]

9. Wait until they get to Walmart and Koch Industries...

that will piss off the big checkbooks over tRump.

Of course, they may never get to Walmart and Koch Industries.

[muntrv]

11. I wonder if ICE will also raid gas stations. Many of them operate simlar to 7-11.

[procon]

12. When are the raids scheduled for Trump's hotels, condos and golf courses? nt

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[octoberlib]

17. +1

[Freethinker65]

24. Yep. I am waiting too. Pricey real estate developments with subcontractors. Go after those employers

The employees are not the problem

[Xipe Totec]

19. 100 stores, two dozen people...

So, at least 75 of the stores raided had zero, zip, nada.

Awesome waste of scarce resources, fellas.

[jmowreader]

29. You're assuming it's one employee per store

Let's say it takes 12 people to staff a 7-11 around the clock. The 7-11 company is a franchisor, so if one franchisee with two locations hired only undocumented people to staff his stores, that would account for all of them.

Be real: an operator who knows how to use eVerify really well is NOT going to have undocumented workers on the floor. And an operator who starts hiring undocumented workers is going to decide pretty quickly he only wants to hire undocumented workers - they're cheaper and you can do just about anything you want to them right up to requiring frequent sex as a condition of employment.

[kairos12]

22. I feel so much safer now.

"sarcasm"

[Kirk Lover]

25. What a WASTE of fucking time and resources. All that so they could 'catch' 25 people who were

just trying to earn a living...or no wait, right they're 'stealing' those jobs from Americans.

If I hear ONE MORE TIME all the job stealing whilst the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE is the basement I'm gonna fucking SCREAM.
I DESPERATELY want there to be a shortage of workers who are doing jobs Americans don't give a rats ass about.

Racist Americans need TO SUFFER. I WANT THEM TO SUFFER.

This has got me very very angry...I really wish I owned a punching bag.

[BeyondGeography]

26. Pathetic

[Anon-C]

27. ICE is deserving of being the least respected agency in all of federal law enforcement, seriously.

They've earned it. Not trying to paint with a broad brush, but my experience is that exactly the kind of people you imagine would be willing to do that work, are doing that work.

[MarcA]

31. maybe someday ICE will be raided. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

28. Thankfully Apu passed his Citizenship Test

[kacekwl]

30. I'm glad

he got all the murders and rapists off the street. Bad hombres trying to make a living . Idiot.

[Initech]

32. First they came for the "illegal" immigrants.

[Duppers]

33. So wrong, so sick.

The nicest stranger I ever in my life met worked at a 7-11 in Staunton, VA. I think he was from Senegal.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. No more Big Gulps for you Mr. Trump