News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Sierra Vista residents indicted for providing fake IDs to illegals

By Jonathan Clark
Herald/Review

BISBEE — Two local residents have been indicted on charges that they conspired to provide forged IDs for illegal immigrants working for a large employer in the Sierra Vista area, state Attorney General Terry Goddard announced Monday.

Goddard’s press secretary, Andrea Esquer, said she could not name the employer, but acknowledged that the arrests were “related to” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-led raid on the offices of Sun Drywall and Stucco on March 9.

That effort resulted in the arrest of Sun’s president, Ivan T. Hardt, and seven of his employees on federal charges that they conspired to hire and harbor illegal immigrants.

In the state-level indictment announced Monday, Francisco Mendivil-Villa, 52, of Sierra Vista, was charged with 12 counts of forgery, one count of conspiracy and four counts of trafficking in the identity of another person.

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