Feds accuse Salt Lake City law firm of helping undocumented immigrants get jobsJuly 28, 2009 SL Tribune Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused Salt Lake City attorney James Alcala and seven of his law firm employees of falsifying paperwork to help Utah employers get work visas for undocumented immigrants. Among those named in a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday along with Alcala are former Border Patrol
agent Carlos Manuel Vorher and Andres Lorenzo Acosta Parra, a former
visa assistant at the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. All are charged with various counts of conspiracy, visa fraud and
encouraging or inducing undocumented aliens to reside in the United
States illegally. The indictment claims The Alcala Law Firm and its employees helped
10 companies in Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties hire ineligible
foreign workers. The companies -- which may not have known they were
getting bad legal advice -- included landscaping, construction,
painting, roofing, steel and property-maintenance businesses. Read the Entire Article 7/15 Sen. John Greiner (Ogden Police Chief) weighs in on the issue: "County jail data, as used by the Sutherland study, has inherent problems since the usual offense in a county jail is a property crime offense and due to a lack of total bed space in the whole system the illegal offender is just as likely to be deported, if possible, rather than incarcerated for a property crime conviction. That coupled with the fact that in Mr. Butter’s testimony there may be as many as 10% of the prison Hispanic population that the prison still doesn’t know the citizenship of! My point is this; the violent illegal offender prison numbers are going up and I personally can’t rationalize that with the fact that someone estimates the number of illegal residents, regardless of race, in our state is going up even more. The citizens of my community are very sensitive to crimes like Murder, Rape and Robbery, whatever those numbers are when they go up or a legal citizen is a victim. Since 95% of our annual property crime hasn’t really been attributed, where it may partially belong to the illegal group, the crime numbers attributable may be more egregious , but at least with SB-81 we may start getting some accurate numbers to the question of impact by illegal citizens in our criminal justice system." Full report here 7/15 Sutherland Institute " We have no doubt about the insistence of some proponents of SB 81 that endless and distant data sources would one day “prove” that, indeed, Utah is awash in a sea of brown criminals intent on subverting everything godly and virtuous. Even so, this game only proves boring . . . . So how did we obtain data for several county jails, particularly Salt Lake and Utah Counties? Simple: we asked them. We contacted the county jails and they responded with the figures we reported. Several counties, such as Salt Lake, provided documentation by fax or email. Others, such as Utah County, reported them over the phone. In other words, we did not “arrive” at our figures, we simply reported them." Full report Here |
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