{"id":15776,"date":"2017-12-01T15:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15776"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:29:53","slug":"bakery-hires-illegal-aliens-fears-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/12\/01\/bakery-hires-illegal-aliens-fears-buns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakery Hires Illegal Aliens, Fears for its Buns"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently raided the Cloverhill Bakery<\/a> in Chicago and removed 800 illegal alien workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cloverhill is owned by Swiss conglomerate Aryzta AG<\/a>. It makes buns for McDonald\u2019s hamburgers. Apparently, Aryzta likes the business it gets from the iconic American fast-food chain. But it doesn\u2019t seem to like hiring American workers. They probably cost too much. So Aryzta just hires illegal aliens who are likely to work for lower wages<\/a> and file fewer complaints about working conditions or on-the-job injuries.<\/p>\n

Employing illegal aliens \u2013 or anyone else who is not authorized to work in the U.S. \u2013 \u00a0is a violation of federal law. Hiring hundreds of them can result in massive fines and other civil penalties<\/a>. But reading the mainstream media\u2019s coverage of this story, you\u2019d think that Aryzta merely broke some foolish regulation specifying what type of napkins must be provided in the employee lunch room.<\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe raid on workers at Cloverhill is one of the biggest U.S. employment headaches reported by a European company so far as President Donald Trump has made curbing undocumented immigration a centerpiece of his presidency.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Belleville News Democrat<\/em><\/a> notes that Aryzta is struggling, \u201c\u2026 to find enough workers and will have to increase its wages\u2026.<\/p>\n

And EaterChicago<\/em><\/a> whined that, \u201c\u2026 when a large European conglomerate reports that the new immigration policy has negative effects on its bottom line, perhaps it\u2019s time to reevaluate priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, President Trump seems to have his priorities<\/a> in order. He has put the interests of American workers first. That\u2019s why he directed ICE to increase its worksite enforcement activities.<\/p>\n

If Aryzta were baking its bun in its home country of Switzerland, instead of Chicago, the company wouldn\u2019t be able to increase its profits by exploiting illegal alien labor:<\/p>\n