Crackdown Begins: Federal Agents Target Taco Shops Employing Illegal Aliens
Update (1515ET):
The federal government is ramping up its crackdown on Mexican restaurants hiring illegal aliens. As we reported earlier, a taco shop in Phoenix, Arizona, was raided and its owner arrested for knowingly employing illegals. Now, federal agents are executing search warrants at businesses across another state, that is Alabama.
"HSTF and state & local law enforcement executing federal search warrants across Alabama. The operation is part of an ongoing investigation into multiple federal crimes," Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Atlanta wrote on X, posting an image of a taco shop called El Patron Mexican Grill & Cantina.
HSI continued, "There is no threat to public safety. More details will be released as available."
Other instances of the federal agents rounding up illegal aliens working at taco shops...
Perhaps it's time for the Trump administration to push for more strict civil and criminal penalties against employers who hire illegal aliens — real deterrence requires real consequences.
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Knowingly hiring illegal aliens is a major crime, and under President Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan, the federal government is cracking down on employers who exploit cheap migrant labor. In some cases, employers have even been caught hiring illegal alien children (or maybe even trafficked by labor mules), as exposed during last week's ICE raids on marijuana farms in Governor Newsom's far-left progressive utopia of California.
Hiring scrutiny on employers continues nationwide, with local media outlet 12 News in the Phoenix area reporting that Homeland Security Investigations arrested Blademir Angulo, 42, after a four-month-long investigation found he had hired at least a dozen illegal aliens at his restaurant, El Taco Loko.
Here's more from the local media outlet:
According to court documents, Angulo not only hired the workers but also allegedly paid them in cash and allowed them to live in recreational vehicles and trailers on property he owns in Laveen, near 63rd Avenue and Baseline Road. Agents also surveilled a second property near 16th Avenue and Southern Avenue as part of the investigation.
An 18-page federal complaint filed on July 11 charges Angulo with four federal crimes: Alien in Possession of a Firearm, Harboring Illegal Aliens, Improper Entry by an Alien, and a Pattern and Practice of Knowingly Employing Unauthorized Aliens.
In an interview, Angulo admitted that he knew what he was doing was illegal, but denied ever paying money to anyone to bring his employees across the southern border. One employee had a differing account, reportedly telling investigators he owed Angulo $12,000 for smuggling him into the United States.
The case in Phoenix should serve as a major wake-up call to employers nationwide who have hired illegals and displaced American labor with cheap, unauthorized labor. Trump's immigration officials are ramping up enforcement against such business owners, and as the administration moves to end temporary legal protections for migrants, major corporations (view here) that employed them are also going to come under increased scrutiny.
Enforcing immigration policies has already sparked a labor renaissance for native workers.
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