According to ICE, five Arkansas residents were sentenced Friday for conspiring to harbor, transport and employ illegal aliens, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents.

All five plead guilty. The guilty pleas stemmed from an investigation into the employment and transportation of illegal aliens, as a source of labor for Amador Poultry Contracting and J&A Loading, businesses owned or controlled by the defendants. The guilty pleas were based on findings that illegal aliens were knowingly hired by the defendants to work on chicken catching crews, who were transported to various work sites, and were paid in cash.

The charges stemmed from a September 2009 raid of the places of employment at locations in Alma, Batesville, Lowell, and Springdale, Arkansas.

In conjunction with these guilty pleas, in edition to jail time the individuals agreed to the forfeiture of property totaling more than $1.2 million in U.S. currency, and real and personal property valued at $631,000, for a total forfeiture of more than $1.87 million. The properties were used in the commission of concealing or harboring illegal aliens, were proceeds of the criminal activity or were acquired with profits made from such activity.

These traitors to America got what they deserve for hiring illegal aliens instead of legal American citizens.

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