The good news in this story is that this man knowingly hired illegal aliens, and now he is going to jail. His excuse? Everyone else is doing it!
From the Knoxville News-Sentinel August 28:
“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.
So because everyone else is doing it, and because even the federal government does it (in violation of its own laws) that's okay:
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.
Everyone hears all of the so-called positive arguments for bringing illegals here and hiring them. The fact is, however, that we are bringing them here, and they are doing extremely hard manual labor for a fraction of the pay that labor is worth if the employee is a legal U.S. resident or an American citizen.
They are being taken advantage of and exploited, but very often, both the government and our Leftist friends (many of whom love to proclaim themselves to be in favor of justice for the poor) ignore that harsh reality.
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