ICE Raid Uncovers ‘Massive Identity Theft’ Scheme by Illegal Aliens with over 100 American Victims
More than 100 Americans have been victimized by what Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are calling a “massive identity theft” scheme by illegal aliens who worked at the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant in Omaha, Nebraska.
As Breitbart News has
chronicled, on June 10, ICE agents raided Glenn Valley Foods and discovered more than 70 illegal aliens working at the meatpacking plant — some for several decades.
The raid helped
open jobs for legal immigrants and some Americans.
Glenn Valley Foods executives have repeatedly said they used E-Verify, the federal program that is designed to weed out illegal employment, and believed they had a legal workforce.
Now, ICE agents can reveal that illegal aliens at Glenn Valley Foods were operating a sophisticated identity theft scheme that allowed them to pass through E-Verify using stolen Social Security Numbers of American citizens.
“There have been individuals who have gone on the record recently referring to the identity thieves we arrested last week as ‘good, hardworking, and honest,'” ICE’s Mark Zito said in a
statement:
In one case, a disabled American in Texas struggled to secure their Social Security benefits because an illegal alien at Glenn Valley Foods had stolen their identity and was using it to work and collect wages.
Likewise, an American in Pennsylvania was denied vital prescriptions by his healthcare provider because his identity had been stolen by an illegal alien at Glenn Valley Foods.
In another case, an American in California has struggled for 15 years to regain his identity and mend financial damages after an illegal alien at Glenn Valley Foods stole it to work at the plant.
Meanwhile, a full-time nursing student in Missouri lost her college tuition assistance after an illegal alien working at Glenn Valley Foods stole her identity. The American was also prevented from renewing her driver’s license as a result of the identity theft because the illegal alien who stole her identity had several unpaid traffic tickets.
In Colorado, an American was hit with an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) notice that required them to repay over $5,000 to the federal government because an illegal alien working at Glenn Valley Foods, who stole their identity, had inflated their income.
“The criminals who stole these identities didn’t just break the law, they upended lives,” Zito said. “These victims aren’t faceless statistics; they’re real people who are being denied healthcare and have lost educational opportunities.”
More than 100 Americans have been victimized by what ICE officials are calling a "massive identity theft" operation by illegal aliens.
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