Steel company that smuggled illegal immigrant workers forfeits $6 million to feds

A steel manufacturing company has been ordered to forfeit $6 million — a near-financial death sentence — after admitting it had run a pipeline for “dozens” illegal immigrants from Mexico to come and work for it, undercutting competitors.

All Steel Carports Inc. told the court in a sentencing memo that owner Ignacio Chavez, who came to the U.S illegally himself before winning legal residency in 2009, didn’t consider hiring illegal immigrants to be a big deal.

“In his culture laws are there but few respect them,” the company’s lawyers wrote… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)