[Rhodes22-list] Chinese Food (Immigration Law)

[Brad Haslett]

Hank,

We're in agreement in principle.  I have a soft spot for immigrants, legal
or otherwise (we were all immigrants once), but I hate to see this man and
his family singled out for destruction.  It may be crude but it no doubt
sure-as-hell is effective.  I posted this as a public service message.  Our
little construction company is paying attention!

Brad

On 8/31/07, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> My wife is originally from Mexico and I have lived there, but I am in full
> agreement with the actions of the courts.  One of the most effective ways
> to
> stop illegal immigration is to make it economically unfeasible.  If the
> jobs
> for illegals dry up, then the illegal immigration will dry up also.  If
> prices go up, so be it, but I don't think they will go up significantly.
>
> Hank
>
>
> On 8/30/07, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You can bet that the cost of Chinese food in Wally's neighborhood is
> going
> > up!  I have mixed emotions about this article but you can bet your arse
> > that
> > we won't tempt fate.  Brad
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Restaurateur gets jail time Chinese restaurant owner hired Mexican
> illegal
> > immigrants
> >
> > By Jamie Satterfield
> > Tuesday, August 28, 2007
> > <http://license.icopyright.net/3.5413?icx_id=37263>
> >
> > A federal judge on Monday rejected the "everybody else is doing it"
> > defense
> > argued by an attorney on behalf of a restaurateur who staffed his
> business
> > with illegal immigrants.
> >
> > "This is happening every day in Mexican restaurants," attorney Charles
> > Torres argued on behalf of Pun Wun Chan. "As an immigration
> practitioner,
> > I
> > see these types of situations every day. It's hard for me to take it as
> a
> > serious crime because it's a constant ongoing (thing)."
> >
> > U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan sided with Assistant U.S. Attorney Will
> > Mackie, who told the judge, "I don't think there's any justification
> > because
> > others may do this."
> >
> > Varlan sentenced Chan, 51, to a year in prison for conspiring to harbor,
> > house and employ as many as two dozen Hispanic illegal immigrants at his
> > Number One China Buffet restaurant on Papermill Drive from December 2003
> > to
> > January 2005. That restaurant has since been torn down.
> >
> > "He appears to have led a law-abiding life up to this point," Varlan
> said.
> > "However, it is clear the defendant attempted to sidestep some of the
> > rules
> > in place in order to increase his personal financial gain."
> >
> > Chan was born in Malaysia but became a naturalized citizen of the United
> > States. Torres said Chan had enlisted the services of an employment
> agency
> > in Georgia that advertised in a Chinese newspaper circulated in
> Knoxville.
> >
> > "All this agency (hires) is aliens," Torres said. "My client was wrong
> to
> > use this agency and hire illegals. My client should have known better."
> >
> > Citing a recent article in a Washington, D.C., newspaper, Torres
> contended
> > that even the federal government has hired illegal immigrants.
> >
> > "This country is somewhat dependent on this type of thing," he said of
> the
> > employment of illegal immigrants.
> >
> > Mackie countered that what Chan did was to take advantage of illegal
> > immigrants, who would be too afraid of discovery and deportation to
> report
> > labor law violations or other mistreatment.
> >
> > "This is a case of exploiting a downtrodden, oppressed people," he said.
> >
> > Varlan did spare Chan's wife, Kim Yin Yap, from a prison term after
> > attorney
> > Bryan Delius argued that she was under the dominion of her husband.
> >
> > "She acted almost totally under the direction of her husband," Delius
> > said.
> >
> > He also noted that with Yap's husband headed to prison, Yap would be the
> > sole caretaker for the couple's 9-year-old daughter.
> >
> > "The court will take into consideration the need for care for Ms. Yap's
> > daughter," Varlan said in placing Yap on three months of house arrest
> > followed by two years on probation.
> >
> > This is the second case prosecuted federally involving the staffing of
> > Chinese restaurants by illegal immigrants. Similar probes by the U.S.
> > Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency of other area businesses are
> > ongoing, court records indicate.
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