RANGELEY – The U.S. Border Patrol arrested nine people working in the Rangeley area this week, six of them for allegedly entering the country illegally.
All of the subjects were transported initially to the Rangeley Border Patrol Station, the agency announced via a press release. Two commercial vehicles allegedly used for transporting the nine individuals were seized pending final disposition. All nine individuals were based out of Massachusetts.
During processing, two men from the Dominican Republic were reportedly found to have entered the United States illegally through Texas; three Ecuadorians were allegedly found to have entered illegally through Arizona; and one Guatemalan man reportedly admitted to entering the United States illegally through Texas.
“It is not uncommon for us to encounter contract laborers from out of state traveling to Maine for work,” said Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens of the Border Patrol in Maine. “One of the lesser-known results of our patrol activities is the safeguarding of local labor markets.”
The six individuals that the Border Patrol says entered the United States illegally were entered into formal removal proceedings and transferred to the custody of Immigration Customs Enforcement’s Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Two of the remaining subjects, from Ecuador, were found to be lawfully admitted permanent residents. Border Patrol agents issued warnings for failing to carry registration documents. The last subject, a citizen of Spain, was lawfully admitted to the United States as a Visa Waiver Program participant. The subject was found to have violated the conditions of the VWP entry and was released pending departure from the Unites States.
Did they look for Canadians here illegally? That is far more common in this area.
Good for you!!!! Thanks
Thank you for helping protect the American Worker, Border Patrol! Yup, right up here from MA – yet another way that state harms us so far away, taking our jobs.
Quickie – they easily could have been Canadians, could they not? Or are there no brown ppl in CA???
First you must find someone doing something, then check ID and determine who they are. I’m sure if Canadians are cruising around in vans with a pile of ladders improperly secured on top, they’ll be pulled over too, and Border Patrol will deal with them. If this is who I think I saw on the side of the road, lucky someone didn’t get a ladder thru their windshield and die.
“Did they look for Canadians here illegally? That is far more common in this area.”
The Democrats are dragging their feet on approving funds for the wall at Coburn Gore
They say that Trump promised he would make the Megantic Chamber of Commerce pay for it
Let’s just put them all on welfare, toss out some elderly Maine residents, and close another nursing home! (This will NEVER see daylight or pass ‘scrutiny’!! Too real!)
Queue the bleeding hearts… as soon as they return from their vacation homes, feeling rested and ready to take on the injustices of the World via social media. For now we’re stuck reading the comments of the weary working class who are fed up with the government pilfering their paychecks to fund the American dream for those cheating the system.
Protect our labor market for who? Seems like a lot of residents who do not work but could, and so very many “help wanted” signs… at least these people were here working, not hanging out and asking for the world in a government check.
This is some great news, and I hope we all appreciate what our Border Patrol and ICE Agents are doing to try and keep us safe. However, we all need to do more to help keep the Agents safe as they conduct this very dangerous work. . If you have any information about illegal immigrants working and/or hiding here in Maine, please report those details to ICE. FMI on reporting tips to ICE: https://www.ice.gov/tipline
“Protect our labor market for who? Seems like a lot of residents who do not work but could, and so very many “help wanted” signs…”
That’s OUR fault; our Liberals, who have made welfare a lifestyle, even thru generations. Improve work requirements for ‘benefits’ and watch the job openings get filled. All that’s happening is the importation of new voters for the Left, and a source of cheap labor for them for their 2nd and 3rd homes, while paying off people to sit home (for NOW; that will end eventually and be very upsetting). A normal society would not tolerate this. Other nations aren’t doing this – it’s just this one and a few others. Self-destructing.
There ARE actually still many, many small contractors, etc, that these people undercut…and if you go to MA, you will note that tons of these independents have been run out of business by illegals. They are usually (always) not licensed or insured, either. (Liberal solution – give them free liability insurance)
Richard Graham, thanks for posting that info. The only ‘sanctuary’ these folks need is comfortable ride back to their home country. Even Obama understood – boy, has the D party become entirely anti-American!
Taking our jobs?? Most businesses in Rangeley are completely understaffed during the summer months. Those vacationers from Massachusetts would be the first to complain when they arrive to a dirty motel room or have to wait more than 20 minutes for a seat in a restaurant.
Hmmmm…who were they working for? And why?
Good question Laura the company should be fined and or prosecuted for aiding and abetting.
Summerzonly that is the idea. Infanticide and physician assisted suicide our guvna just signed those into law. She didn’t sign the bill to fund nursing homes before the “break”. If there are more illegals here than citizens they don’t have to worry about the competition getting any votes.
Wow. Looks like a few who were missed by the protesters in NYC ended up in Maine. Also looks like we have some folks up here who are keeping their eyes open. Thank you, Border Patrol.
I didn’t realize Trump had planned to build a wall in Coburn Gore to be paid by the Megantic Chamber. Slick Idea, Mr. Davis. Perhaps you should concentrate on TEXAS since you don’t live here anymore, nor have lived here in many years.
Back to Basics – read my post above yours. There are simple reasons why there is a labor shortage in Maine…one big one is that nobody seems to NEED TO WORK. We’ve made them comfortable in their poverty.
It’s a real shame. Used to be that a person from Maine, in any other state, was seen as likely a hard and honest worker, and would get a job over others. Not anymore. In other states, we’re now known as layabouts. Check the porches at 10AM; observations don’t lie.
Yes – any company hiring an illegal should be fined $100,000 first offense. They are hammered if they don’t provide comp, or have other insurance, so why not??
And – Migrants who love America and enter legally are an entirely separate thing. I think most people who BECOME US citizens are better than a majority of us born here. You don’t see THEM on the front porch, 10AM, smoking butts and bud.
Where ever they were working must had to
go to the bottom of the of the unemployment bucket
Was there ever a job bid put in for locals?
Hard to say, Well Said. I think the name of whomever hired them, and where in the town they were working, should be public. Don’t we have the right to know who is gaffing the system? If it was a a contractor with no comp, their name would be in the paper.
Most likely the company undercut a local contractor whose ‘price was too high’ (because of over regulation that you avoid by using illegals).
Where. Were the local young people to do the work
I will assume that equal accountability under the law will be doled out to the employer that “hired” them to do the work. Herein lies the “hypocrisy” of the one sided haters out there. If there were no unscrupulous businesses or people out there, the draw for the illegals could not exist. For some of these people a weeks labor allows them to feed there families back home and secure upgraded housing. Without American people and businesses breaking the law, the draw goes away.
Daryl, I agree with you. As long as the welfare goes away also.