When you allow millions of people to flood into the country illegally, it's not surprising when some of them engage in identity theft and other illegal means to obtain illegitimate employment. The latest example comes to us from, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rounded up a bunch of illegal aliens from Glenn Valley Foods. One of the illegal aliens attacked an officer; ICE notes that the number of such assaults is increasing.

Nationwide, assaults on ICE officers are up 413%, The Center Square reported. Targeted worksite enforcement actions are also up, with a record more than 1,000 worksite enforcement actions conducted in the last few months, The Center Square reported.

The latest assault of ICE officers and federal partners occurred at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, where mostly Honduran nationals illegally in the U.S. were employed. Federal officers “were assaulted by an illegal alien while executing a federal search warrant into the large-scale employment of aliens without legal work authorization” ICE said.

“An illegal alien from Honduras brandished a weapon and assaulted federal agents and officers who were doing their job: protecting American citizens, the public and businesses who are being victimized through identity fraud,” ICE acting director Todd Lyons said. “Let’s be clear – this wasn’t just someone ‘out of status.’ This was a violent criminal who attacked law enforcement while they were serving the public, which is why the term ‘criminal alien’ is a distraction. If you’re here illegally, you’ve already broken the law. When you break the law by coming here illegally and then threaten and assault federal officers on top of that – you’re a threat, plain and simple.”

It's not clear what the weapon was, but one wonders if the illegal Honduran realizes how lucky he is to still be converting oxygen to CO2 today.

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More than 70 illegal aliens were arrested in the raid. Many had active local warrants for offenses and prior convictions; many now face charges of identity theft, visa fraud, and illegal re-entry after previous deportations.  

Here's the onion:

Glenn Valley Foods owner Gary Rohwer said the company used E-Verify to verify employee applications and “was shocked” that those hired were in the country illegally, the Associated Press reported. Federal officials said the information the company received included stolen identities and fake IDs to skirt the E-Verify system.

More than half of the company’s workforce was arrested, all in the country illegally.

Shocked, he says.

Color me skeptical.

But wait! There's more!

The U.S. Attorney for Nebraska has prosecuted cases involving Social Security document fraud used by illegal foreign nationals to work in meat processing plants in Nebraska. In Fremont, roughly 45 minutes from Omaha, investigators identified an identity theft conspiracy using a deceased person’s Social Security number that was used to make fraudulent Social Security cards, state driver’s licenses, and lawful permanent resident cards, The Center Square reported.

Multiply this by 50 states, and you begin to develop an appreciation for the problem we face. This thing was years in the making, and will be years in the fixing. Unless, that is, another Democrat president is elected to immediately throw the gates open again.

This is why we vote, and the American people voted for just this: Identifying, detaining, and removing illegal aliens. These 70 individuals held jobs that would have otherwise gone to Americans, and that would be reason enough to remove them. And there's also the fact that we are supposedly still a nation of laws, whether the left likes it or not.

This is one more win, but we still have a long, long way to go.

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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