Mississippi Business Journal » illegal aliens http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Judge delays trial of couple accused of using illegal immigrants http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/08/judge-delays-trial-of-couple-accused-of-using-illegal-immigrants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-delays-trial-of-couple-accused-of-using-illegal-immigrants http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/08/judge-delays-trial-of-couple-accused-of-using-illegal-immigrants/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:49:40 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=53715 RIDGELAND — A federal judge has pushed back until May the trial of a couple charged with knowingly using illegal immigrants at their irrigation company in central Mississippi. The trial had been scheduled for April in U.S. District Court in Jackson, but has been postponed until May 21. A federal indictment says Paul and Barbara [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/08/judge-delays-trial-of-couple-accused-of-using-illegal-immigrants/feed/ 1 Weitzel facing forfeiture for using illegal workers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/29/weitzel-facing-forfeiture-for-using-illegal-workers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weitzel-facing-forfeiture-for-using-illegal-workers http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/29/weitzel-facing-forfeiture-for-using-illegal-workers/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:48:17 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=43017 GULFPORT — Federal prosecutors want a South Mississippi businessman to forfeit $475,000 in an illegal immigration case. Randy Weitzel of Gulfport allegedly earned the money by employing illegal immigrants, including some who worked construction jobs at the federal courthouse in Gulfport where Weitzel was convicted and Keesler Air Force base in Biloxi. Weitzel was identified [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/06/29/weitzel-facing-forfeiture-for-using-illegal-workers/feed/ 0 Ex-Howard official gets house arrest for hiring illegals http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/03/ex-howard-official-gets-house-arrest-for-hiring-illegals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ex-howard-official-gets-house-arrest-for-hiring-illegals http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/03/ex-howard-official-gets-house-arrest-for-hiring-illegals/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:33:26 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=37765 LAUREL — The former human resources manager of a Mississippi company was sentenced today to six months house arrest for hiring hundreds of illegal immigrants who were rounded up in the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history. Jose Humberto Gonzalez pleaded guilty in Dec. 2009 to conspiracy and admitted hiring people he knew were [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/03/03/ex-howard-official-gets-house-arrest-for-hiring-illegals/feed/ 0 Ex-Howard HR manager faces sentencing http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/31/ex-howard-hr-manager-faces-sentencing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ex-howard-hr-manager-faces-sentencing http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/31/ex-howard-hr-manager-faces-sentencing/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:13:33 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=21603 Sentencing has been postponed for a man who hired hundreds of illegal immigrants for one of Mississippi’s most successful private companies, the site of the nation’s biggest workplace raid. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained about 600 illegal immigrants at Howard Industries’ electrical transformer plant in Laurel in Aug. 2008. Former human resources manager [...]

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