MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES RAID ANOTHER PHOENIX BUSINESS
Deputies Arrest 24 Employees Suspected of Being Illegal Aliens
Engaged in Felony Identity Theft
Sheriff Arpaio Looking Forward to Enforcing New State Law
(Phoenix, AZ) Maricopa County Sheriffs deputies this morning raided the local Phoenix business, Lasermasters, located at 4855 W. Van Buren Street after receiving a tip through the illegal immigration hotline that employees were engaging in identity theft, a class four felony.
After a six month investigation deputies obtained and served search warrants at the business looking or employee files and records related to the 35 targeted suspects believed to be living and working in the country illegally utilizing false identification.
The Sheriff stated This is our 32nd investigation into the workplace where illegal aliens use false identification to get jobs that legal residents of this country desperately need. We are continuing our enforcement of all immigration laws.
Sheriff Arpaio stated that although the new controversial state immigration law signed last week has not yet gone into effect, he believes that the law will enhance future efforts by his office in these types of cases.
The previous 31 investigations into businesses engaged in identity theft have resulted in the arrest of 362 illegal aliens, 231 of which were suspected of identity theft.
Open border activists and the U.S. Department of Justice have been turning up the heat on me for months because of my stance on illegal immigration. And now the Freedom walkers, Al Sharpton and others are threatening civil unrest. Let me make this point clear: their threats will not persuade me to turn away from my responsibilities as Sheriff to enforce the law. Arpaio stated.
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Deputies Arrest 24 Employees Suspected of Being Illegal Aliens
Engaged in Felony Identity Theft
Sheriff Arpaio Looking Forward to Enforcing New State Law
(Phoenix, AZ) Maricopa County Sheriffs deputies this morning raided the local Phoenix business, Lasermasters, located at 4855 W. Van Buren Street after receiving a tip through the illegal immigration hotline that employees were engaging in identity theft, a class four felony.
After a six month investigation deputies obtained and served search warrants at the business looking or employee files and records related to the 35 targeted suspects believed to be living and working in the country illegally utilizing false identification.
The Sheriff stated This is our 32nd investigation into the workplace where illegal aliens use false identification to get jobs that legal residents of this country desperately need. We are continuing our enforcement of all immigration laws.
Sheriff Arpaio stated that although the new controversial state immigration law signed last week has not yet gone into effect, he believes that the law will enhance future efforts by his office in these types of cases.
The previous 31 investigations into businesses engaged in identity theft have resulted in the arrest of 362 illegal aliens, 231 of which were suspected of identity theft.
Open border activists and the U.S. Department of Justice have been turning up the heat on me for months because of my stance on illegal immigration. And now the Freedom walkers, Al Sharpton and others are threatening civil unrest. Let me make this point clear: their threats will not persuade me to turn away from my responsibilities as Sheriff to enforce the law. Arpaio stated.
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