{"id":17566,"date":"2018-08-29T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17566"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:05:44","slug":"texas-company-raided-yet-again-for-potentially-hiring-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/08\/29\/texas-company-raided-yet-again-for-potentially-hiring-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Company Raided Yet Again for Potentially Hiring Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"
A trailer-manufacturing company in Texas has been raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the second time in four years after hiring unauthorized workers again. ICE raided Load Trail on Tuesday and arrested<\/a> 160 employees who were unlawfully working in the United States. The company apparently didn\u2019t learn its lesson as it was previously fined<\/a> $445,000 in 2014 for hiring 179 illegal aliens.<\/p>\n According to ICE\u2019s report, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) received a tip that the company \u201cmay have knowingly hired illegal aliens, and that many of the aliens employed at Load Trail were using fraudulent identification documents.\u201d More than 300 federal agents were involved with the operation.<\/p>\n One employee claimed that agents \u201craided from every entrance\u201d and that some employees attempted to escape only to be caught, according to The Dallas Morning News<\/em>. Load Trail states<\/a> that it has more than 500 employees, which means those arrested made up almost a third of the workforce.<\/p>\n