Donald Trump & Immigration Raid

[Dale]

What if Donald Trump pardoned (or commuted the sentence of) the key culprit whose actions led to the largest immigration raid in US history? He did.

On May 12, 2008, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, (ICE) conducted an immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, that was then, and apparently still is, the largest in history. The raid took $5,211,092 from the ICE budget. This does not include later costs of prosecution by the Department of Justice, or costs involving the US Department of Labor or to local authorities. The target of the raid was a kosher meat packaging company, Agriprocessors.

Most of the employees were undocumented workers from Guatemala and Mexico. Almost four hundred workers, 389 to be exact, were charged with “aggravated identity theft,” a charge related to being in the country illegally. Most of them, 297 to be exact, were allowed to plead guilty to using a false social security number. That gave them a sentence of five months in prison followed by deportation.

You might wonder who is running this plant. The plant was owned by Aaron Rubashkin (never charged) and managed by his eldest son, Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin. At one point Rubashkin, the son, was charged with 9,311 child labor violations but these were dropped. Prosecutors brought a 12 part indictment against him but most of these were later dropped. He was convicted of 86 counts of financial fraud and sentenced to 27 years in prison, in 2009. The prosecutors decided this was enough and dropped immigration charges against Rubashkin.

Sholom Rubashkin’s sentence was commuted by Donald Trump on December 20, 2017. Rubashkin had served eight years of his 27 year sentence. He did not get off scot free. He was still under a court order to repay $26,852,152.51 to creditors and on parole for five years.

Donald Trump commuted Rubashkin’s sentence for political reasons. The commutation makes nonsense of Trump’s claim to be tough on border crashers and strong on immigration enforcement. The truth is that Trump is unpredictable, his plans change frequently.


Sources
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/politics/kushner-rubashkin-trump-clemency/index.htmlhttps://

Postville raid anniversary: A timeline of events in one of America's largest illegal immigration campaigns

Postville raid - Wikipedia

see also
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/2018/05/10/postville-immigration-raid-10-year-anniversary-town-reclaims-identity/587995002/

 

[hislegacy]

The prosecutors decided this was enough and dropped immigration charges against Rubashkin.

Trump didn’t commute Immigration charges - the prosecutors (during Obama) did.

 

[Dale]

Trump didn’t commute Immigration charges - the prosecutors (during Obama) did.

Rubashkin employed hundreds of foreign, undocumented workers and the company even provided false ID's for them. That's why hundreds of those workers went to prison, followed by deportation. Donald Trump commuted Rubashkin's sentence to time serve for crass political reasons, because he thought it would help him get reelected.

 

[hislegacy]

Rubashkin employed hundreds of foreign, undocumented workers and the company even provided false ID's for them. That's why hundreds of those workers went to prison, followed by deportation. Donald Trump commuted Rubashkin's sentence to time serve for crass political reasons, because he thought it would help him get reelected.

That’s why no one has ever heard of him. And Trump commuted his sentence which was NOT for immigration charges

Those charges were dropped by the prosecuters

It is a lousy attempt at a conspiracy theory IMHO

 

[Dale]

That’s why no one has ever heard of him. And Trump commuted his sentence which was NOT for immigration charges

Those charges were dropped by the prosecuters

It is a lousy attempt at a conspiracy theory IMHO

You are twisting the facts to serve your own agenda.

 

[hislegacy]

You are twisting the facts to serve your own agenda.

Nope

 

[Dale]

Try this one.

The US government spent $875 billion on Medicare in 2021. This is the gross spending. When you figure in $179 billion in premiums paid by recipients, net Medicare spending is $696 billion. (usgovernmentspending.com) There is no hard figure for the cost of Medicare fraud, but by some estimates it is almost 10% of net spending. This is clearly unacceptable. What is being done about it?

In 1996, during the Clinton Administration, Congress set an annual budget of $114 million for the FBI to investigate health care fraud. In 2005, the Government Accountability Office reported to Congress that this money had been “diverted” to other projects so that little was accomplished. This is from David Cay Johnston’s book, Free Lunch. The FBI Director at the time was Robert Mueller, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001, so the Bush Administration must take some responsibility for this.

There were major prosecutions for health care fraud during the Obama Administration. Philip Esforme owned a chain of nursing homes in Illinois and Florida. Prosecutors say that fraud by Esforme cost Medicare $1.3 billion. He was arrested and detained in 2016, convicted in 2019, and sentenced to twenty years in prison.

Donald Trump commuted Esforme’s sentence on December 22, 2020, releasing him from prison. This isn’t the only commutation for someone convicted of Medicare fraud. Judith Negron was convicted of a $205 million scheme to defraud Medicare in 2011 and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Trump commuted her prison term and her term of supervised release.

Under Joe Biden, the Justice Department is trying to bring Philip Esforme to trial again for six counts that the jury deadlocked on in 2019. Hopefully this will succeed.

Will Medicare dollars be there for you when you need them? Donald Trump obviously doesn’t care.

 

[hislegacy]

Will Medicare dollars be there for you when you need them? Donald Trump obviously doesn’t care.

Now it isn't immigration - because that was completely debunked with you own OP - so the goal posts now move to Medicare?

You for got that President Trump also punches puppies in the face with brass knuckles for entertainment and please don't forget how he sponsored this: