Cleveland, TENNESSEE: Atlanta Illegal Alien Smuggling Aid Includes Cleveland Restaurant (Slave labor paid $3.55 a hour in cash by Tax Evading Plantation Owner)

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CLEVELAND, Tennessee -- An illegal immigrant investigation involving smuggling is underway in Atlanta and it involves at least one business in Cleveland. The federal government has indicted seven people and more could be coming.

The government indicted the people who supplied what it calls an illegal labor pool and smuggled these workers through several states. Next, it may target the companies that employed them. And one business is in Cleveland.

The government charges four people in the Atlanta area moved illegal workers across the eastern United States for a fee.

The indictment says Hong Mei Li, also known as "Jenny Li" arranged last October for an undocumented worker, identified as A.M (a native and citizen of Mexico) at a restaurant in Cleveland, Tennessee. The restaurant paid him $1200 per month for working 13 hours a day, six days a week, paid in cash and housed by the restaurant owner.

We did the math, that comes to $3.55 a hour.

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Posted by tyne at April 17, 2008