Three illegal immigrants sentenced to time served

... And what about the owners of Clinton Farm.. Did they check the validity of the documents?

No they can goto taco bell for lunch. They must be hungry.

The owner of this Farm should be the one facing charges. Its up to any employer to ensure the accuracy of documents of his employees. This farmer will be the first to stand up and say " we hired these people because we can't find mainers who are willing to do farm labor". The state is also responsible...they are far to willing to keep welfare roles full instead of forcing people to go to work! The next time you drive by the Hope House and you see 5 strapping young lads smoking cigs at 6 dollars a pack talking on their cell phones and playing Hackey Sack , collecting welfare on your tax dollar, ask your self if you think these lazy bedwetters could pick vegtables on a farm in Clinton. We have the orange jump suit resort filled with people that would love to get out of their cells to do farm work. But no....we have a government in Augusta that says.." my word we can't work these people against their will , they're prisoners for god sake". This is a never ending circle in this state. But as i get ready to go pick cotton myself today I will be warm and fuzzy knowing there are people less fortunate...

I agree the next step should be to bring charges against the farm owners. At least they are shipping them back.

Charging the owners is the cheap, intelligent, and loigcal solution. What we should do, what the Republicans want, is to build a $20 billion wall across the mexican border. It won't work, but it will make the GOP feel better. And don't forget the candian border, BUILD A FENCE!!!

Amazing how men while travel from Mexico just to work and be paid, knowing the risks of deportation, and we have such a high unemployment rate. Americans must be lazy or think that manual labor is beneath them. No wonder WalMart and countless other companies have their products made in other countries - they can pay children in Taiwan 5 dollars a day to do the same amount of work an American would either not do or want to be paid a lot to do.

Yep... shipping them out and they will be back in a couple of months. They should have gotten 5 years. Then kicked out and see if they are in such a hurry to come back and bring their relatives.

I will tell you a story about immigrant labor and make it as short as possible. Blueberry raking... which they say locals won't do. They bring in migrants and pay $2.50 a half bushel box. The company provides housing for them. A van arives from the government and signs them all up for food stamps. A bus takes them to work. Another takes their kids to daycare. Another stands by in case they need medical help. All free. If I manage to get a spot on the crew... if I can get on...if they don't already have all the migrants they need... I get the same $2.50 a box..... the same price we got over 20 years ago when all the berries were raked by locals.... and out of that $2.50 I have to pay everything they get for free and still pay my regular bills. It is the same downeast for all seasonal work... wreath making... seafood processing... etc. Not a level playing field.

They should get the maximum penalty and have the feds pay for it.If we got rid of the 12 million illegals tomorrow our budget would be balanced,our emergency rooms free for real Americans and we wouldn't have to press one for English.GET THEM OUT NOW.I voted for Tancredo-sorry he lost.

Don't forget they have to provide a outhouse too. I do notice your major blueberry companies are cleaning off the blue berry lands so they can harvest them with a machine. Look at the land on Day Hill in Wesley. They have been removing rocks all summer and was still doing it a few weeks ago. I remember getting paid 6 bucks a bushel from RH Foster. He had some good fields over in the Cooper area.

They should get 5 years but in a MEXICAN jail-not the country clubs they have in Maine and the US

How about busting the Clinton Farm owners for breaking the law and hiring the Illegal Aliens. Its employers like this that brings these Illegal Aliens into this country to begin with. All they had to do was call E-verify to see if the Illegals were here legally. By the way, not bad, just a few months for ID Theft. You got to love Maine with the easy ID theft sentencing. The Illegals should have got at least 5 years in prison for ID theft then deportation.

We don't need to house them for 5 years; time served, get outta here.

If you think it is bad now----wait until Obama and his billary crew open the gates wide open.

--that's after they take your guns.

I like to know how these illegal immigrants obtained false documentation and false identification; if I were one of the investigators in this case I would be looking at the owner of the farm as a suspect.

chemaine, I'm with you, let's keep those pesky Canadians out of here, at leat until they learn how to drive.

CeeBlu, you are correct. They are already coming out and saying that he will not be able to deliver on most of his campaign promises. If we opened up some taco bells in Mexico maybe they will stay there.

This country is never going to wake up to the fact that these people are draining us financially. I have raked a good many berries in my day and I was no kid when I did it. I know for a fact that getting help in the fields is getting harder with so many lazy asses hauling in welfare checks. And then they go out and bring the illegal aliens in and put them on public assistance in addition to their wages. If the farmers don't want to give them a decent pay then he should be responsible for all their benefits. Ship them back, but like someone else said they will just come back. I think many farmers don't advertise for help as they already have the aliens booked to do the work.

Remember this, Obama gonna pay my bills Obama gonna pay my bills.

sewmama, DITTO!

If the owner had something to do with this and strongly believe that he did, I say we keep the illegal immigrants and throw the owner across the border into Mexico!

sickntired doesn't seem to realize that it would have cost Maine taxpayers $20,000.00 a year or more PER person to put them in jail - not to mention that the conditions in most U.S. jails and prisons are better (food, clothing, heat, and medical/dental care) than the living conditions for most of the poor living in Mexico. Those who immigrate to the U.S. and work for menial wages still send money home to their families so that those at home can live better. Think about how much that must mean when the few dollars sent from here can make such a different there. So - you want to pay that much more in taxes here to put them in jail for 5 years? Think life there is is so much better than it is here in a jail for them? If you do - it's only because you don't know the facts and are speaking from emotions and "attitude".

If you spent a little time outside your limited mentality "Maine fortress", Cee Blue, and experienced some of the big city metropolitan crime - gangs, drive-by shootings day and night - territory gangs who have bigger and better weapon power than the police/sheriff - even the feds a lot of the time, you might understand why outlawing the sale of certain guns will make the vast majority of citizens far safer than they are now. They only people who benefit from no-limit gun sales are the gun makers/distributers, the drug dealers, and the no social-conscience creeps that have taken over most of the streets in the big cities of the USA.

chemaine is a moron

So, these job thieves walk, virtually Scott free, eh? They got "sentenced" to "time served" - IOW they were going to walk whether convicted or not! Besides, they only "did time" in a county lockup or a federal holding facility, not a state or federal prison. See if you, a US citizen, can get that kind of slap on the wrist if you commit a felony!

BTW, try calling your US senators, Snowe or Collins - or as I refer to them, Tweedel-Dee and Tweedel-DUMBER! Niether one of them will lift a finger to get the laws enforced or the border secured. If you're working for the same wages - or less! - that you got back in the Reagan administration that's just your Tough Luck! Oh, the congressmen from Maine are even worse - a staffer for one of them - Michel [spelling?] told me the congressman wouldn't do a thing to get Border Patrol agents Ramos and Campean pardoned - they were guilty as charged and deserved to rot in prison. Imagine, a "Democrat" who gives his stamp of approval to the corrupt doings of the Boosh "Department of Justice!" Illegal aliens - including drug smugglers - get the Red Carpet treatment from Maine's delegation; hard-working Mainers can Go Pound Sand for all they care.

I don't blame anyone from Mexico who does risk their life crossing the border into the United States in order to find work to help their families. They live in such poor conditions that if I was one of them, living in poverty I would attempt to get across the border as well to earn a crap wage doing crap work. They can't even earn a crap wage doing crap work in Mexico, that is why them come to the United States because they can earn more money in a few months in the United States than they could earn in an entire year in Mexico and they do work their asses off for little pay and they don't complain about it.

Most of these Mexicans have no choice but to use false documents to get a job in the United States and I'm well aware of the people that hire them turn a blind eye to documents they know are falsified but sadly they have no choice as Americans refuse to do a job they consider below them. Nobody here would move to a poverty stricken region of Mexico and try to make it for six months. You would be begging to get back in the United States most likely within the first two weeks. These people are poor and desperate and unlike the American government, the Mexican government doesn't help out those in need such as we do in America.

SteveDee no real Mexican would eat at Taco Bell. There is no real Mexican food in the state of Maine, at all. Some might claim to have it but they don't. I've had homemade Mexican food made by people who grew up in Mexico. Nothing in the state of Maine can touch it. Tell me where I can get an authentic bowl of roasted hatch green chili soup in Maine. If you can it most likely will taste like Taco Bell to me.

As for the article. These men did their time, they will be deported and yes, they most likely will come back. I don't blame them and if you do, you are nothing but an ignorant American.

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Apparently, not too many of you know much about farming. I grew up on a farm, and was disgusted by the constant stream of convicts my father hired because NO ONE else would do the work. There have been four decent people (that weren't family members) who worked on our farm. The rest were drug-addicts, perverts, child molesters, etc. I was not allowed around most of the people who worked for us because my mother was so afraid for her daughter. Eventually even they wouldn't work for us. My father did advertise all the time in every newspaper in Maine. My father ended up working so much that now at 59 his body is literally falling apart. They recently started hiring LEGAL Mexicans and they are good people who work harder with less whining and complaining that 99.9% of anyone who ever worked for us. Americans just don't want to work for their money. I would love to see some of the welfare-whores out there working. Someone HAS to do it. It's not entirely the farmer's fault. If there is no one to work on the farms, they cannot keep running. For some of the farmers now-a-days, it's Mexicans or losing the farms and their way of life. Without the Mexicans on my family farm, it would have been broken into house-lots and sold 5 years ago. Sorry for the huge paragraph, but, if it comes down to hiring Mexicans or losing something that's been your family's way of life for 5+ generations, I say bring on the Mexicans!! Unless you all want to trade lives for a few days to see what it's really like.

hey peaceppl... are you sure your family didnt hire them because they will work for minimal pay? perhaps thats the reason your poor family could not find americans to work! maybe at 59 years old daddy should think about selling houselots!!! if you think mexicans are so fabulous....move there and see if they share the same admiration for you! save your time ive been there....THEY DONT!!!

I am dam sick and tired of going to the 4 corners grocery store in the summer and seeing a honduran family with 5 kids ,2 parents, with 5 grocery carts full of food ,one parent paying for the food in food stamps ,the other parent at another counter wireing his paycheck back to honduras, and all 54 kids wearing Tommy Hilfiger clothes, and then they proceed to uloead all their groceries into a new SUV. I work 6 days a week to survive and put food on the table for my family. Why cant I get food stamps and put all of my paycheck in to my account and have a new SUV and put Tommy clothes on my kids? I'm a legal and I get no assistance. Pisses me off. Take care of our own instead of takeing care of the ilegals, if they want to reap the benifits of the US of A then they should have to serve minimum of 3 years in the military before they can reap the benefits.

From Wikipedia: "Those who commit the sin of envy resent that another person has something they perceive themselves as lacking, and wish the other person to be deprived of it. Dante defined this as 'love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs.' In Dante's Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have their eyes sewn shut with wire, because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low."

From my Wikipedia: Anne_of_mdi: To make ignorant statements and not commenting on the subject at hand, always bringing religon in every comment. In annon's purgatory,the punishment is sewing her mouth up with wire to keep her from talking and burning her computer.

There are alot of migrant workers living in Northern Maine as well. Who knows if these people are here illegally or not. There does seem to be a strong connection between the farming industry and the hiring of these types of workers. Apparently these latest incidents show a need for government involvement. The owners of the farm should be prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens to work for them. Their business is subject to the same federal work guidelines as any other business. Poor record keeping and cover-ups make it easy for farmers to hide their activities. Investigators should do random searches of farms for illegal workers. Some of these illegal aliens might be hiding out here in Maine because they have a criminal record. It sure is tempting to hire someone illegally if you can find people willing to work cheap labor, however, if farmers were prosecuted for their actions then the practice would be less appealing.

to chemaine: if you have a problem with canada spit it out, canada and the u.s. have shared the longest undefended border since the end of the war of 1812. your draft dogers hoped over our fence to get out of serving in veitnam. so don't bash canada. all you and millions like you are are going to say some day is "why don't we have any friends".