What Daniel Beck Told the Minutemen at MCC – Part 7 – Terrorism and Bondage

This is the seventh installment in McHenry County Blog’s effort to let people know what Allen County, Ohio, Sheriff Daniel Beck told people at the Illinois Minuteman Project meeting held at McHenry County College Friday, October 26th.

Previous articles have covered

Fighting Republican Courthouse Corruption,

Motivation for Getting Involved with the Fight Against Illegal Aliens

The Rule of Law

Enforcement Techniques, specifically, how 287(g) training is not necessary to get started,

Idendtity Theft Enforcement and

Other Crimes by Illegal Aliens.

Perhaps, the heading is a bit dramatic for an article that will concentrate on what Sheriff Beck has done to work with business and labor.

But one of his main examples had to do with the oil refinery in Lima, Ohio.

Surely, it is a potential terrorist target.

”Workers come in from all over the country,” Beck explained.

“You don’t know what an illegal alien looks like. I don’t want people from countries I don’t know working in the refinery,” he said of what he considers a high value terrorist target.

He said protecting the refinery was a matter of “national security.”

Sheriff Beck went to the refinery manager and asked if he “wanted to be a good neighborhood partner.”

The manager “hired off duty officers to look at every subcontractor’s employees that worked in the plant.

“Starcom (perhaps spelled incorrectly), out of Texas, had to cancel its contract.”

Lima also has an XM-1 tank plant and two of the largest ammonia tanks in the world, which he suggested represented a “tremendous problem.”

More generally, Beck told of an effort to talk “to local business whom we thought had contact with illegals.

“They really want to be better partners when they know the sheriff is looking at them.”

Beck encourages employers to “use that Social Security number verification service.”

(That’s the one which Illinois House Bill 1744 makes illegal the use of this SS number verification system. Governor Rod Blagojevich just signed the bill making it illegal to use in Illinois. The federal government has challenged the law in Federal court.. Senator Pam Althoff did not vote on it; Senator Bill Peterson voted “Yes.” In the House, Reps. Jack Franks and Mark Beaubien voted in favor, while Mike Tryon cast a “No” vote.)

“It doesn’t cost them a cent,” Beck observed.

He also has worked with local employment agencies. All but one is cooperating and he said he would “like to see them get straightened out.”

Beck stressed that his deputies were not looking at personnel records.

When he meets with a business, he won’t take files based on demographic data. He insists on a random sample or takes “all your files.”

To develop a program like his in Allen County, he suggests partnerships are essential.

He listed business and industry, labor unions (pointing out that 14% of construction workers are illegal aliens), law enforcement and others I didn’t catch.

He commented about paying special attention to Mexican and Chinese restaurants.

And from what people working at the ICE detention facility at the McHenry County Jail have told me, Sheriff Beck is “right on,” at least as far as Chinese restaurants go.

I was told that those arranging for Chinese to be flown to O’Hare don’t tell them that there is no way out, except through Customs. Of course, then, they are taken into custody, ending up in McHenry County.

The women are destined to become prostitutes to pay off the cost of getting to the United States, I was told. The men end up living in the basements of Chinese restaurants until they work off their debt.

Remember the indentured servants of colonial times? It sounds a lot like that.

And what keeps the men and, especially, the women from running away?

The Chinese criminals know who their Chinese relatives are.

Can you imagine a woman’s wanting to leave her country badly enough to spend an extended period of time as a prostitute?

Beck commented on how illegal aliens are often “literally (in) human bondage.” They have to pay off whoever smuggled them in and anything they buy “goes on their tabs, like the old general store.”

He pointed out that knowing employment of illegals is a federal offense.

He hinted that the Criminal Division of IRS is sometimes interested, if other federal agencies are not.

The reason? It is a violation of federal tax laws “to hire (someone) as a ‘private contractor’ in order to avoid paying federal income tax obligations.”

“If not a criminal offense, (the business might get) a civil audit,” Beck continued. “If that doesn’t strike fear into their heart, I don’t know what would.

“There really is a God and there really is justice.”

Tomorrow’s story is about Sheriff Beck’s critics.

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The window is in the 4th floor ICE detention center at the McHenry County Jail.


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