The owner of the Omaha food packaging company says that his business was disgusted by federal immigration officials, whoI raided the factoryShe arrested more than half of her working power.
Malik Gary Rohwir said on Wednesday that the raid occurred, although the company is accurately followed by the government system to verify that workers are legally in the country.
Rohwir said, standing outside the factory, that Glen Valley Foods is now about 30 % of the capacity as the business is scrambling to employ more workers.
In response to a question about the inconvenience of the raid, Rohwir replied, “I was very upset, madam, because we were told to dismantle, and we performed all these years, so I was shocked.”
He said: “We have done everything we could do.”
E-Verify is the US Interior Security Ministry system on the Internet, which was launched in the late 1990s, which allows employers to verify quickly whether potential employees can work legally in the United States, and often using social security numbers.
It is used by some of the largest employers in America, including Starbucks and Wal MartBut the vast majority of employers do not. Critics say the system is somewhat easy to cheat, especially with wrong documents.
RohWer noted that federal officials said that his company was a victim of those who use stolen identities or fake identifiers to circumvent the Verify system, which leads the agents who manage the raid described as “broken” and “defective” for executives in the Glenn Valley.
But this does nothing to fix the company’s final result.
He said: “I would like to see the United States government … reach a program that they can communicate with companies on how to use legitimate assistance. The period.”
The American Immigration and Customs application confirmed that more than 70 people were arrested during the Glen Valley Foods raid on Tuesday. As one of the workers, described as a homeland Honduras, said, he attacked the federal agents where he was detained.
Omaha’s raid comes in the midst of the immigration campaign underPresident Donald Trump. The administration wasThe intensification of its effortsIn recent weeks, Trump has publishedMore than 4000 soldiers of the National GuardAnd 700 naval infantry this week to respond to the continuous protests in Los Angeles on immigration policies.
The raid, in the southeastern part of Omaha, where nearly a quarter of the populated population, according to the 2020 census, generates hundreds of people to protest on Tuesday evening. But it also had a chilling effect on the southern Omaa community.
The campus south of Omaha was closed at Omaha College at Metropolitan College and the Omaha Library branch in the region on Tuesday afternoon, and many companies were closed along the South Omaha Street, usually with the spread of the news of the raid. Roger Garcia, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners in Douglas County, said that many of them were closed on Wednesday.
“Everyone is still alert, waiting to see what is happening today and in the coming days,” said Garcia. “So there is still a lot of anxiety and fear there.”
He added that this fear will appear in the form of a weak economy in Omaha.
He said: “As you know, when the products are not sold, taxes are not collected, and people cannot get their goods either. So it all affects us.”
He said that the aunt of Garcia’s wife was among those who were captured by the ice during the Omaha raid. They could not locate her detention.
The raid came on the same day from the opening of the newly -elected mayor John Iwing, a democratic who canceled the Republic for three years, Jean -Stotoret last month.
During a press conference on Wednesday to address the raid, Iwing refused to predict whether the timing of this aims to pay attention to the oath of the oath. But he condemned the procedure by the federal authorities, saying: “My message to the public is that we are with them.”
The Omha Todd Shammir police chief also announced that his ministry will not play any role in verifying immigration or legal status for residents of society.
“This is not our mission. Our mission is public safety,” the president said. “I need victims to progress. They will not advance if they are afraid of the police administration, or immigration officers.”
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