Managers, Supervisors, and Human Resource Personnel Indicted for Immigration Crimes and other Federal Crimes Stemming from Largest Single-State Worksite Enforcement Action in Nation’s History
Jackson, Miss. – U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, joined by Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Matt Albence, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans Acting Special Agent in Charge Gilbert Trill, and U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Rafiq Ahmad announced today the unsealing of indictments returned by a Federal Grand Jury in the Southern District of Mississippi against four individuals who were managers, supervisors, or human resources personnel at companies where criminal and administrative search warrants were executed in August 2019 and 680 illegal aliens were detained.
“This office has a successful history of prosecuting employers for violating our immigration laws, and today marks another step in ensuring that justice is fairly and impartially done, no matter the law-breaker. I want to thank our partners at ICE Homeland Security Investigations and our office’s federal prosecutors for doggedly pursuing these criminal violations. The indictments unsealed today mark the beginning, not the end, of our investigations and prosecutions. Rest assured that we will continue to pursue criminal wrongdoers and enforce our criminal laws wherever the evidence may take us,” said U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
“The results of this ongoing criminal investigation illustrate the importance of strong interior enforcement. The arrests made last year pursuant to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s execution of more than a dozen search warrants, have thus far yielded 126 indictments, 117 criminal arrests and 73 convictions. In total, more than 403 individuals falsified social security information in order to gain illegal employment in the United States,” said acting ICE deputy director and senior official performing the duties of the director Matthew T. Albence. “Companies who intentionally or knowingly base their business model on an illegal workforce deprive law abiding citizens and lawful immigrants of employment opportunities, which are especially critical as our economy looks to recover from the challenges faced by the COVID-19 pandemic. ICE Homeland Security Investigations will continue its commitment to uphold the laws Congress has passed. These laws protect jobs for the legal workforce, reduce incentives for illegal migration, and eliminate unequitable financial advantages for businesses employing illegal immigrants.”
INDICTMENT OF SALVADOR DELGADO-NIEVES OF A&B, INC.:
According to the indictment, Salvador Delgado-Nieves, 57, of Pelahatchie, Mississippi, was charged with three counts of harboring illegal aliens, three counts of assisting illegal aliens in falsely representing themselves to be United States citizens, three counts of assisting illegal aliens in obtaining false Social Security cards, and one count of making a false statement to law enforcement officials when he denied having hired illegal aliens at A&B, Inc. in Pelahatchie.
Delgado-Nieves faces up to 74 years in federal prison and $2.5 million in fines for these criminal violations, as Counts 1-6 carry a maximum of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each violation, Counts 7-9 carry a maximum of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count, and Count 10 carries a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
INDICTMENT OF IRIS VILLALON OF A&B, INC.:
According to the indictment, Iris Villalon, 44, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was indicted on one count of harboring an illegal alien, and one count of making false statements when she denied that she had hired illegal aliens for employment with A&B, Inc., in Pelahatchie, and one count of causing false employer quarterly wage reports to be filed when she knew the Social Security number represented in such reports was not assigned by the Social Security Administration to that specific illegal alien employee listed therein.
Villalon faces up to 20 years in prison and $750,000 in fines for these criminal violations, as Count 1 carries a maximum of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine, and Counts 2-3 carry a maximum of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each count.
INDICTMENT OF CAROLYN JOHNSON AND AUBREY “BART” WILLIS OF PEARL RIVER FOODS LLC:
According to the indictment, Carolyn Johnson, 50, of Kosciuskio, Mississippi, was a Human Resource Manager and Aubrey “Bart” Willis, 39, of Flowery Branch, Georgia, was the Manager at Pearl River Foods LLC in Carthage, Mississippi. Johnson was indicted on six felony counts of harboring an illegal alien as well as one count of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft. Willis was indicted on five counts of harboring an illegal alien.
The indictment charges both defendants with harboring illegal aliens following the execution of federal warrants at the Pearl River Foods facility on August 7, 2019. Johnson was also indicted for fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a grant from the State of Mississippi for reimbursement for on the job training for employees of Pearl River Foods. As set forth in the indictment, Johnson submitted claims for reimbursement for on the job training that never occurred.
If convicted, Johnson faces a maximum of up to 84 years in prison and $2.25 million in fines, with Counts 1-6 carrying a maximum of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each violation, Count 7 carrying a maximum of twenty years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each violation, and Counts 8-9 carrying a mandatory minimum of 2 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each violation.
If convicted, Willis faces a maximum of up to 50 years and $1.25 million in fines, Counts 1-5 carrying a maximum of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each violation.
Villalon, Johnson and Willis will appear for arraignment before United States Magistrate Judge Linda R. Anderson today at 1:30 p.m. Delgado-Nieves will appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Ball at 2:30 pm today for his arraignment. The case against Johnson and Willis has been assigned to Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III. The cases against Villalon and Delgado-Nieves have been assigned to U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves.
These cases were investigated by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and are being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lynn Murray.
On August 7, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations, in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi, executed multiple federal criminal and administrative search warrants at seven sites across central Mississippi. This was the largest single-state worksite enforcement operation in our nation’s history, resulting in the detention of 680 illegal aliens and the prosecution of 119 illegal aliens for stealing the identities of American citizens, falsifying immigration documents, fraudulently claiming to be United States citizens, and illegal re-entering the country after have been deported, among other federal crimes.
The investigations of federal criminal violations continue.
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He must have gotten teaching from his aunt nancy, Nancy Pelosi!
No Doubt.
Another bit about Newsom,
He owns a getaway house in Idaho, probably Sun Valley. Now that CA is closed, I've heard his family has gone there. I've heard, also, that his children will go to school there. Haven't been able to verify this, but trying to get confirmed info.!
Sorry Colonel, not in California, the sanctuary state. It's even difficult to not rent to illegals because you are not allowed to ask them if they are illegal.
I know it's supposed to be illegal to rent to illegals, but I lived in California for many years, and the governing people are sympathetic to the illegals. That is why we moved away from there. Our sons all got out of there, also! We went to states where such laws are honored.
We have rental property, but NOT in California! What a total mess that state has become!
I agree with you Jc4you.
Thanks!
It's a beautiful state, but terrible people have ruined it!
Very sad!
Try getting law enforcers in California to take action against illegals. California, by the way, has been inundated with illegals from China!
This is what they do: women who are already pregnant but not showing, come in as tourists! They are met at LAX by someone who brings them to a "birthing house" where they stay hidden for months. When they go into labor they are taken to a hospital emergency room to give birth, where the baby's birth is recorded. This gives the mom the "anchor baby" that gives her the legal right to stay in the US! After which she begins the "chain migration " that thankfully President Trump has worked to stop, where the now legal immigrant mom brings in other family members. A friend who lives in Chino Hills, CA told me of a birthing house that was raided a couple of miles from her. It was discovered because the septic system of the house was overflowing raw sewage on a hillside where cattle were grazing in beautiful Carbon Canyon! The cattle owner made a complaint with the health department. The authorities found 18 pregnant Chinese women living in the house in filthy conditions. The house was closed down, but the guilty facilitators will not go away. The fines They pay mean nothing. Each one of those pregnant women Has paid a fee to the facilitators of up to $70,000 in order to get this kind of access. It is do lucrative for the facilitators, that they'll take any penalty given them with a smile, and find another place to do the same thing as soon as possible. We were visiting family in Southern California about three years ago and stayed in an Airbnb and the new community of Eastvale. Every morning we saw in that upscale housing development young Chinese pregnant women out taking Their morning walks. AndThe beautiful community of Chino Hills is now almost entirely occupied by Chinese. Each woman has paid a fee to the facilitators of up to $70,000 in order to get this kind of access. The beautiful community of Chino Hills is now almost entirely occupied by Chinese. There is one shopping center where there is a Costco that has been taken over by Chinese who have appealed to the city for permission to have all signage in that shopping center in Chinese. If anyone were to go and see the communities of Rowland Heights and Hacienda Heights, which are not that far from Chino Hills, you will see all Asian signage. The Asians, for the most part, live quietly and are very industrious. But they have come and taken over illegally by getting anchor babies. They are very good at it! And they avail themselves of every possible government assistance which would otherwise have been meant for citizens. And it is upsetting to American citizens who have lived in that area and seen it being taken over by societies that do not in anyway try to assimilate into American society.
so the kernel has mentioned the bracero program. We have a friend that came over from Mexico with his father when he was 17 years old. They came legally for work under the Brasero program. He told us that the first place they worked was picking peaches in Madera California. He told us that it was "hotter than hell" there. When the peach harvesting was finished they were supposed to return to Mexico. But they found out that there was harvesting of produce in Southern California, where the work was good the pay was decent and the weather was cooler. So they migrated there. They never left California. He is now in his 60s, still living and working in Southern California. He has produced 8 children with three different women. He only ever married one of those women. I will say he's an enjoyable guy, good personality, and works hard. He was smarter than most because he purposed early on to learn to speak read and write English well, and he learned a lot about plants and growing and eventually over time became a landscaper which is the way he makes his living. Although his many children were raised on welfare money because he never supported the first seven, he has only supported the eighth, who has now grown, in many respects he has not been a total drain on society.
I have no problem with people coming in to do some hard physical labor that's needed, and that is seasonal, but they are supposed to return to their country of origin when that harvesting period is over, and I'm here to tell you that they do not. And if these workers produce a child while they're working here, will Wala! They have their anchor baby. our friend who is now a landscaper gets angry at the influx of current illegal immigrants, because he says they are lowlife compared to the ones that came in when he did. He says those who came in when he did came here to work and they do work as he does. But the new people know that there's government benefits that they can get, they get as much in as many as they can as fast as they can, and he tells us they refuse to learn English because their philosophy is that if they don't learn English they will force us to learn to speak Spanish! That is pretty darned annoying! And in truth, I have seen that myself or should I say heard it myself. I do know some who came illegally, who became legal during the amnesty that was put into place under President Ronald Reagan, and many of them today have become citizens naturalized. But I will tell you that after living in California all these years since Ronald Reagan, the ones that I know still cannot speak English!
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