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A federal judge has suggested that when two men used fake Social Security cards to gain employment at the local Pilgrim’s Pride plant, they might not technically have broken the law.
Juan Luis Dardon-Canelo and Andres Loarca-Reynoso, along with three others, are being criminally prosecuted in the wake of a large immigration raid in April. The pair arrived in court Monday expecting to plead guilty to using a fraudulent illegal identification document — a Social Security card — to get jobs at Pilgrim’s Pride.
U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice’s suggestion that a Social Security card is not necessarily a form of identification, however, has allowed more time for the defense to evaluate whether guilty pleas are appropriate.
“I’m not sure you can base this charge on a false Social Security card,” Judge Mattice said during the hearing, noting that another federal judge dropped a similar charge against Tyson Foods because of a loophole in U.S. immigration law.
The 2003 Tyson Foods trial in Chattanooga concerned allegations, among other things, that the company had smuggled Mexicans across the border to work at various plants.
The government accused Tyson of hiring the Mexicans even though the company knew they were using false ID documents — in this case, Social Security cards, too — in order to get jobs. But the defense argued that the portion of U.S. immigration law under which the company was charged does not expressly list a Social Security card as a form of ID.
U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar agreed, dismissing the charge in the process. A jury eventually acquitted Tyson Foods of all charges.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John MacCoon, who prosecuted the Tyson case, said Judge Edgar’s decision highlighted “the lack of legislative precision in the (immigration statute)” since Social Security cards are considered ID in other portions of the law.
“It’s a very convoluted, confusing statute,” Mr. MacCoon said.
Defense attorney Anthony Martinez said after Monday’s hearing he was not aware of the ruling in the Tyson case and had “no idea” whether it would affect his clients.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Terra Bay also said she was not aware of the 2003 case, but she told Judge Mattice she did not oppose allowing extra time for both sides to rethink their strategies.
A new court date has not been set. Mr. Loarca-Reynoso’s plan to plead guilty to a second charge of illegally entering the country after previously being deported also was postponed.
Three other men charged with various immigration violations resulting from the raid — Roberto Gabriel-Ramirez, Jose Luis Ramirez-Vasquez and Alfredo Gabriel-Torres — are set to plead guilty in the near future. It was not clear Monday whether those intended guilty pleas could be affected by the Tyson case as well.
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Leftist judges and their asinine, anarchist renderings are absolute proof that illegal alien hugging and radical liberalism is a mental disorder.
Social Security card is not an ID? Hooey. Tell that to the IRS when it DEMANDS your SSN for ID purposes and, for that matter, all other federal and state agencies which do the same. See how long YOUR jail sentence is...
Ride 'em out of town on a rail, sez I. [The judges AND the illegal aliens.]
Something really smells bad in the judiciary, when a District judge addressed to several illegal aliens, that using a bogus Social Security number was not a crime, let alone a felony? The Federal judge has suggested that when two men used false Social Security cards to gain employment at the local Pilgrim's Pride plant, they might not have technically broken the law. So can anybody tell me, that if somebody uses a citizens private SS number that is a personal identification number of that person to gain employment isn't a crime? Then why do citizens even bother with this special number, when they can just walk into a hospital, get free services like illegal aliens and walk away.
Hey! Why not let all legal members of the population get false ID, because we cannot be arrested. U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice's say's that's okay! A federal judge has just taken away our citizenship, our sovereignty and eroded almost rights we have. Our founding Fathers would tun over in their grave , if they no how Globalists are destroying America. If your a patriotic American first and a Democrat second, tell the morons in Washington to co-author the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) . It's our last chance to save America, from the illegal immigration invasion.
Does the American people need to escalate the 315 million plus population, the census estimates we have now? To a new total of 435 million because the new president wants to add a new blanket AMNESTY? Right now the dire consequences of overpopulation is irrefutable, by just looking at the congestion in our cities, along with the ever growing pollution. We cannot sustain supporting even larger numbers of people, or ignoring the predatory businesses that callously assume that legal citizens will support their cheap labor? We, the American welcome more legal immigrants, than any other country in the world, whatever their national origin. Yet the 'Special interest lobby, through certain corrupted politicians expect us to import poverty, so that the profits of rogue companies is not suspended.
The Diversity Alliance for Sustainable America www.earthtimes.org/have stated in it's article that if the U.S. grants amnesty and gives citizenship to 12 to 30 million illegal migrants, as Senators Obama and McCain propose. All those naturalized citizens could possibly add 120 million U.S. and foreign-born relatives to the U.S., in the next 20 years whom all would CONSUME MAJOR ENERGY. Only THE FEDERAL SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) offers any chance of halting this overpopulation quagmire It's enactment will give ICE and the police more enforcement powers. Join NUMBERSUSA for free and become part of a solution and not lies.
Rome was not conquered in a day and a mile cannot be walked without taking the firsty step. Watch the upper class elites and full of self-guilt socialist retards give your freedom away. Working class legals must unite to fight for what millionS have died to protect AND CREATE before it is all given away in court rulings and behind closed doors. But beware that your attempts to protect your american standards of living will be met at every turn by lawyers, federal government, or charges of racism. Assemble and mobilize free thinking intelligent persons and those in charge who are reaping the benefits of this modern invasion will feel threatened and use all force within thier power to CRUSH you.