OMAHA, Neb. — The proprietor of an Omaha meals packaging firm says his enterprise has been unfairly hamstrung by federal immigration officers, who raided the plant and arrested greater than half its workforce.
The raid happened regardless of the corporate meticulously following the federal government’s personal system for verifying the employees had been within the nation legally, proprietor Gary Rohwer stated Wednesday.
Glenn Valley Meals now could be working at about 30% of capability because the enterprise scrambles to rent extra employees, Rohwer stated as he stood exterior the plant.
Requested how upsetting the raid was, Rohwer replied, ”I used to be very upset, ma’am, as a result of we had been advised to e-verify, and we e-verified all these years, so I used to be shocked.”
”We did all the pieces we might probably do,” he stated.
E-Confirm is an internet U.S. Division of Homeland Safety system launched within the late Nineteen Nineties that enables employers to shortly verify if potential staff can work legally within the U.S., typically through the use of Social Safety numbers.
A few of America’s largest employers use it, together with Starbucks and Walmart, however the overwhelming majority of employers don’t. Critics say the system is pretty straightforward to cheat, significantly with false paperwork.
Rohwer famous that federal officers have stated his firm was a sufferer of these utilizing stolen identities or faux IDs to get across the E-Confirm system, which lead brokers conducting the raid described as ”damaged” and ”flawed” to Glenn Valley executives.
