Pro-illegal immigration activists commonly like to tell us that “illegals pay taxes, too.”
Sure, some of them do. Mostly in the form of sales taxes on the stuff they buy with money from their usually-under-the-table cash paying jobs. Like these illegal workers who were rounded up in California and Arizona:
PHOENIX — Federal agents arrested owners of several Arizona and California restaurants Wednesday on an indictment charging them with hiring illegal immigrants and evading taxes.
Agents raided 15 Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler restaurants in both states and served 20 search warrants. They detained about 40 suspected illegal immigrants who were working at the restaurants when the raids took place, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Vincent Picard said.
The father and son independently own about 20 restaurants in the Chuy’s chain. A company accountant also was arrested on a 19-count indictment.
Mark Evenson, 58, of the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley, and his son, Christopher Evenson, 39, of Oro Valley, Ariz., were being held pending an initial appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tucson.
The Evensons and accountant Diane Strehlow, 47, of Tempe, Ariz., are accused of hiring illegal immigrants for the company’s kitchen operations and paying them under the table. They did not collect state or federal income taxes for those employees, according to the indictment.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke said the family “knowingly dodged thousands in taxes for nearly two years in order to maintain an illegal work force.”
“That deceitful practice, which hurts all law-abiding taxpayers and employers, must stop,” Burke said. “There should be no place in our economy for employers who cynically exploit and defy the U.S. tax code to take advantage of illegal labor.”
You could probably conduct a similar raid on just about every restaurant and construction site in Austin, where a high percentage of workers are illegal immigrants.
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Oh, that’s just great.
A Chuy’s recently opened near our mall.
This doesn’t make me want to go there.
I already have a favorite Mexican restaurant that I go to, anyway.
This is a different Chuy’s. The Chuy’s in the article is a chain with restauarants in California and Arizona…not the one with multiple Texas locations.
Who care cus I don’t I like the food from there. So if Jesus or Jose is going to make it I’m cool with it.Its not like the white or black folks are running to apply for those jobs.
In Houston too. Hell all you have to do is hit most any Home Depot or Lowe’s parking lot that’s just off or on the feeders of any of the major highways..including the Toll Road.
SB..I like Gringo’s myself.. and they’re opening or have just opened a Chuy’s up the road in Katy.
Now now, you all know we can’t call them illegal…they are undocumented workers. Who else can they get to make mexican food and keep it so affordable!
Ha! For a family of four to go and eat at Gringo’s, as Sean points out, costs me in the range of 50 to 60 bucks. Before tip and without alcohol. I like Gringo’s so we go there every now and then, but come on….how much does cheap skirt steak, some flour tortillas, rice and beans cost to make? And by the way, my two teenage girls say that my quesadillas are better than any other in town. Shit, I’m not even a small percentage mesican.
GOD BLESS TEXAS!!
D-Mac..1. you live in Houston? 2. There used to be a place I went that was cheaper than Gringo’s and the portions were bigger!! It was called Don Bravos, and it was literally right up the street from my house. I could WALK from my front door to the restaurant in 8mins. From my driveway to their front door took me about 3mins..and that’s only because of pesky little things called stop signs and a traffic light.
Been looking for a place like it ever since it closed lo those many years ago. I can find places as good..and for about the same price on occasion but never the portion size..which at bravos..damn I ALWAYS had leftovers. And for the 3 of us {mom me and sis..dad is a meat and potatoes man who won’t eat anything tex mex, chinese etc.] who went there..we could eat with tip..and a bottle of brew or two….for right around $40..It went over $40 dependin on how many beers I had…
Quesadillas? meh..I’m a taco and enchilda guy myself. Tacos all the time at home and Enchiladas most of the time I eat out.
Dmac..just saw your reply on another post. never mind about Question one.
I loved Don Bravos….you are correct, i could never finish my meal! There also was a place in the heights that was a 24 hour joint, I don’t remember the name. After playing fitzgeralds, dan electros or rockafellars that always was the place to be until early morning. It was always fun to watch a first timer dip into the green sauce and then realize it was nothing but pureed jalapenos. It was meant to spice up the red sauce. Of course we would never warn anyone, ahhhhh good times!
I don’t like the quesadillas either….but anything to please the girls!
I loved Don Bravo too! My family and I ate there for like 15 years before they closed. They were so good, I want to find the owner and beg him to reopen!
Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Texas, a position formerly held by Johnny Sutton and now held by John E. Murphy, obtains a “guilty” verdict against Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz.
It seems that Diaz was guilty of “pulling” on the handcuffs of one illegal drug runner. He was accused of using “excessive force” but was exeronated via an Internal Affairs investigation. But that wasn’t good enough for the government of Mexico, who said that the illegal drug runner, now back in Mexico, had been abused by the BP agent and demanded the agent be prosecuted. The Texas U.S. Attorney was only more than happy to comply with Mexico’s demands and they took Diaz to trial. But it ended in a hung jury so John E. Murphy retried Agent Diaz.
This time they got a guilty verdict, and although a number of witnesses admitted that they had falsified information to the grand jury, the judge disallowed that information in the second trial. Sound familiar? This is Ramos/Compean all over again. Oh, and it seems the illegal, who was 16 at the time, is now free to cross the border at will. Again, sound familiar?
And let’s make it worse:
at the website of Local 2544 of the U.S. Border Patrol, they are saying they have audio of David Aguilar, who answers only to Janet Napolitano, telling agents “You are NOT immigration officers” and going on to explain to them that there job is NOT to arrest illegal aliens.
We are so fucked.
The case with Diaz is at least as big a travesty as Campeon and Ramos, if not more so, since no shots were fired. The one point that has him in the most trouble, like the other two, is “lying” to investigators. That is what brings the most jail time and is the offense he most needs to be able to refute, if he can.
no2liberals: let’s see:
Mexican national caught running drugs across our southern border: check
arrested by Border Patrol: check
released back into Mexico by BP: check
complaint of brutality by Mexican government against Mexican national drug runner who is safely back into Mexico: check
Investigation of incident, BP agents exonerated” check
Mexican government contacts U.S. Attorney’s office and demands prosecution: check
Mexican national given immunity by U.S. Attorney’s office: check
Mexican national now has visa that allows willful entry into the U.S. at any time: check
Other Mexican nationals admit that they purjured themselves during grand jury testimony; that information not allowed during trial: check
Tell me, just how much of that sounds exactly like Ramos and Compean?
Lying to the investigators, no2liberals? The IA investigation found no wrongful action on the part of the BP agent. It was not until the U.S. Attorney’s office got involved, AT THE REQUEST OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT, that this started blowing up in the agent’s face. This persecution was started by Johnny Sutton, and continued by the Obama appointed U.S. Attorney.
Again, we are going to see another 7 year veteran of the BP go to jail after the U.S. Attorney’s office gave immunity to the drug runner.
I am calling Mike McCaul’s office tomorrow. This persecution of our Border Patrol has to end. We are giving immunity to drug runners and putting BP in jail.
As I said already, the travesty of justice for the BP agent.
The charge of lying to investigators is the most serious charge, if they can disprove that charge the whole case crumbles.
Our agents are already walking on egg shells because of wrongful prosecutions of our agents. The end game must be for them to play video games for their entire shift, so that Incompetano can claim there are NO arrests being made on the border, therefore ILLEGAL immigration has stopped entirely.
As for the alleged victim, he should be given nothing, not money, not permanent residence status or immunity from being charged with several crimes he should already be in jail for.