• If you are having problems logging in please use the Contact Us in the lower right hand corner of the forum page for assistance.

FBI agent fired for hiring illegals

Texan

Well-known member
Ex-FBI agent accused of illegal hiring at Rockwall deli

By JASON TRAHAN and DIANNE SOLÍS / The Dallas Morning News

A former Dallas FBI agent is expected to plead guilty next week to federal charges that for 11 years she used illegal immigrants to staff a Schlotzsky's restaurant she owns in Rockwall.

Ann Cox was fired by the FBI after the U.S. attorney's office filed a misdemeanor charge on July 28 accusing her of employing six illegal immigrants during periods from 1997 to 2008.

"While operating the deli, Cox engaged in a pattern and practice of hiring and employing aliens in the United States while knowing that they were unauthorized for such employment," court documents said.

Cox has filed paperwork admitting that she knowingly hired illegal immigrants. She is expected to plead guilty before U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater in Dallas on Aug. 27.

Cox's husband is also an FBI agent but is not involved in the case, authorities say.

Terence Hart, Cox's attorney, declined to talk about the case on Thursday.

Cox is charged with misdemeanor unlawful employment of aliens, which can carry six months in prison and a $3,000 fine for each illegal hiring. If the judge accepts Cox's plea agreement, she could receive five years' probation, documents show.

Dallas FBI spokesman Mark White declined to comment on the case, which is a joint investigation of the Department of Justice inspector general's office and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok also declined to comment.

Under a 1986 overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, employers nationwide can be fined for knowingly hiring and employing illegal immigrants. Such fines can escalate up into a criminal offense, as was the case with Cox. ICE has fallen under intense criticism under both the Bush and Obama administrations for the low number of criminal cases brought against employers who hire illegal immigrants.

So far this fiscal year, federal criminal charges have been brought against only 147 managers nationwide for hiring illegal immigrants. That's nearly the same as the number of illegal employees who have been arrested during the same period, statistics show.

But in fiscal 2007, criminal charges were brought against 92 employers nationally, compared with 711 illegal immigrant employees.

Jon Feere, a legal policy analyst with the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which advocates harsher crackdowns on illegal immigration, called for more prosecutions against employers.

"The law is clear: Business must only hire those who are legally employable," Feere said. "The government has limited resources, but certainly this administration and the previous administration could ... prosecute a greater number of employers every year."



http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-immworkers_20met.ART0.State.Edition2.35abc68.html
 

ranch hand

Well-known member
Who went to prison for all the illegals that the packers hired and ice found whe, they raided? I think they need to do something for those hiring them, but better treat all employers the same.
 
A

Anonymous

Guest
ranch hand said:
Who went to prison for all the illegals that the packers hired and ice found whe, they raided? I think they need to do something for those hiring them, but better treat all employers the same.

AMEN- including all the politicians that hired them as maids, nannies, houseboys and gardners...
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
Oldtimer said:
ranch hand said:
Who went to prison for all the illegals that the packers hired and ice found whe, they raided? I think they need to do something for those hiring them, but better treat all employers the same.

AMEN- including all the politicians that hired them as maids, nannies, houseboys and gardners...

and as construction workers on stimulus projects....and the unions that sign them up.
 
Top