Elle Purrier - St Pierre's farm raided - migrant workers arrested

They will not be in trouble unless the workers are truly undocumented/illegal and the St. Pierre's knew about it (both have to be true). They may also be in trouble if they were paying them in cash. That would be a tax evasion issue and likely less severe.

That is all speculation. As of yet, there is nothing that indicates they did anything untoward in this situation.

This is getting to be a national story.

We need waaaay more information before we can draw conclusions.

We don't know if the workers are here illegally or not

We don't know for sure if the St. Pierre's knew if the workers were legally here or illegally here.

What I will say is this. IF the workers were here illegally and IF the St. Pierre's knew-the St Pierre's are the ones on the hook for that. People love to get rowdy about "illegal immigrants" but forget that undocumented workers are incredibly exploited, and the people DOING THE EXPLOITING should be the ones on the hook.

But again. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S TRUE YET.

My prediction. It will be found that nothing illegal was going on, and will be a custard pie in the face of those hungry for villains in every bush. Sometimes you really are just paranoid.

We get it, you Dems made the exact same arguments 200 years ago about other farm products. Only thing that has changed is the type of people you think are lesser-than that you prefer to do these farm jobs. Dems NEVER change their stripes, always loving that indentured/enslaved person to do their work for them to "drive down costs".

This is from a registered commenter from the original article posted. Seems, they may not have anything to do with it.

Nope. This was NOT a raid. I was there on scene when this happened. BP told me they had received a call from a citizen to report a group of men walking out of the woods carrying backpacks (i.e. the very description of people who are crossing the border illegally). BP went to investigate bc they could not ignore a complaint like that. When they arrived, the men started fleeing, thus, they were pursued. That is what happens when you run from BP- regardless of your race, immigration status or color!

Because all those entitled MAGA yahoos in middle America are just lining up to shovel S**t and milk cows in northern Vermont.

While people who actually know how to work are getting run out of the country.

What a joke we’ve become. Pathetic.

"We hire all our employees legally" aka via a contractor who you look the other way when they clearly are hiring illegals with fake documents. Happens way to much, honestly they need to start enforcing the law on the business owners and not let them shield themselves from liability.

And the crazy part is with this administration no one will get due process so we won't even know if they are truly un-documented

So, this is Elle's husbands family not her own (like yes, I get that her husband's family is now her own, but she had the farmer girl bit going long before she married him)

I am sure the system has plenty of built in plausible deniability so that industrial farms, hotel chains, construction companies etc. can act shocked when an illegal is uncovered. Industries contact a prime agency, he sub-contracts to a specialist agency who in turn sub-contract to a regional office. The immigrant validation is then done by a separate agency who again sub-contract based on origin of immigrant, duration of employment, educational qualification etc. etc..

By the time an immigrant is hired his file has probably passed through five or six different agencies. Plenty of opportunity for someone, somewhere to have dropped the ball. You'll probably never know which agency screwed up and if, by chance, you do identify the agency, well there is always the blame the intern excuse.

fitz, fitz, fitz. Come back to earth.

The ones who MOST want the illegal farm workers to stay working on the farms are - sit down while reading this - farm owners. THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHOM VOTED FOR TRUMP.

Again, the prime mover on keeping illegals working on farms illegally is hard right conservative farmers who are among the most m'aga of all industries.

Good thing this administration has been doing such a bangup job of following due process, so we know that the only reason someone would flee border patrol would be if they were here illegally.

Living in fear everyday is common for Californians who see their country being destroyed by Marxist politicians.

Also, I stopped drinking milk twenty years ago because it is not healthy and contains too many unnatural chemicals.

As someone who has owned a small dairy farm, this take is not it. One large farm does not put everyone else out of business. Our milk marketing system is really unstable, which makes it nearly impossible for small farms to survive. Small farms do not have the economy of scale to make a go of it. This is the same in almost every industry. You can blame big farms all you want, but they are the only ones that can cash flow. If you want to see a different outcome, the pricing system needs to change. I loved my 50 cow dairy, but I was going broke doing it. It sucks, but I don't blame my neighbors.

100% true and good explanation. Plus they close on agency down, another one pops up the next day - different name but same contacts. It is a messed up system and companies should be required to vent and hire directly.

Gotta give Elle some credit for trying to do it the 19th century way - breed your own farm workers. May take few more years though.

Sometimes you really are just not reading the news.

Guilty. Not Guilty. Doesn't matter. ICE will deport them.

‘Non-MAGA Trump voter’… LOL…