11.08.09
US immigration ruling reveals holes in donut franchise strategy
A donut shop franchise in Houston, Texas has been ordered to pay damages of more than $1.5m for hiring undocumented workers.
Texas donut franchise fined for hiring workers without US visas
U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. found Shipley Do-Nut Flour and Supply Co. guilty of employing workers without US visas and has commanded the corporation to pay a $250,000 criminal fine plus $1.3m to immigration officials.
Recent US immigration proposals by President Barack Obama advocate the enforced use of E-verify, an electronic biometric identification system which verifies the immigration status of employees. The system is meant to decrease the number of employees working without valid US visas.
Such a policy may have helped prevent the company’s current legal woes, as the owners clearly did not use E-verify or any other reliable checks to establish the work status of its employees.
It seems unlikely that a franchise selling 50-cent donuts could recover from a loss of $155m, but Shipley Do-Nut is proving more resilient than your average doughnut franchise joint. Prosecutors in the case said the company has put new procedures into place to prevent the reoccurrence of immigration violations, including the hiring of an outside consultant to advise on immigration compliance.
Published by Rebekah Nahai in Global Visas
August 11th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
The Status Quo are selling propaganda and downright lies, across the TV, radio bandwidths. LIES! Lies and more lies about both Health care and illegal immigration. The facts are that President Obama has an objective of introducing a Canadian and European type single payer system. In truth it’s like a nationwide–MEDICARE–like all senior citizens receive now. It’s only difference their will be–NO CO-PAYS, DEDUCTIONS, NO PREMIUMS AND NO PRE -EXISTING CONDITIONS. The Special interest lobbyists, who work for the wealthy health care industry, are using every means possible to derail any kind of Universal health care. We must remember the British/English, French, German, Danish and other have been well accepted by their population for decades, with no worries about bankruptcy or Debt collectors calling. My health care in England, was first class when I lived in there, without financial worries and no distractions from profiteering insurance companies.
Since the inception of the European common market and the directive of open borders for cheap labor pouring into the industrialized nations, they have been overwhelmed by the impoverished needing health care. Such conditions didn’t exist before the 1960′s, as the their was no mass immigration and waiting periods. In America today and since the newest waves of legal and illegal immigration, costs to medicate these people have sky rocketed who have never paid one penny into the system. Each previous government never have restricted immigration, but allowed taxpayers to pay for their health care and welfare benefits. Each year approximately 1.5 million new immigrants are granted work visas and many become public charges. Now Obama is insisting on yet another AMNESTY, which will be even costlier to the American taxpayers, so says the Heritage foundation. American taxpayers should not have to subsidize US businesses, which has been happening for years? A large majority of pariah corporate executives, do not want any restrictions on foreign national workers, that is why they have tried to kill a mandated E-Verify identity data base, to extract all illegal immigrants from the working environment.
That SANCTUARY STATES like California must rescind illegal immigrant refuge policies. That President Obama’s health care renewal plan—WILL–attract millions more impoverished people from around the world. That they can join with the 20 plus million already here, to get free medical care under the Democrats law now passing through Congress. MY QUESTION IS! WHY SHOULD TAXPAYERS SUPPORT THE ILLEGAL LABOR FOR THE PARASITE CORPORATE ENTITIES ACROSS AMERICA? CALL TODAY AND GIVE POLITICIANS AT 202-224-3121 YOUR CRESCENDO OF FRUSTRATION? THAT’S ALL THEY UNDERSTAND–WHEN THEIR JOBS ARE IN PERIL. GOOGLE NUMBERSUSA AND JUDICIALWATCH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CORRUPTION AND PROFITEERING FROM BOTH PARTIES. OVERPOPULATION will be the irreversible consequences of mass immigration.
August 11th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
You might like to remember the world would not have many of the USA & the World’s finest companies if Immigration to the USA stopped. Immigration made the USA great. Of course small town, small minded people with little or nothing to offer will always want to keep those people away who are gifted and motivated.
Why not make a country rather than Citizenship being an accident of birth it is a right a person has to earn.