(Red State)—Yes, this is what we voted for. A Phoenix, Arizona, taco shop owner, one Blademir Angulo, is accused of knowingly hiring and housing illegal aliens in his businesses for years. He’s now under arrest after a prolonged investigation by the Department of Homeland Security. Angulo reportedly not only hired the illegal aliens but also paid them in cash and housed them on his property.
Blademir Angulo, 42, was arrested last week following a four-month investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Federal agents allege that Angulo employed at least a dozen undocumented workers at his restaurant, El Taco Loko, which operates a brick-and-mortar location, a food truck, and a bus in the West Valley.
According to court documents, Angulo not only hired the workers but also allegedly paid them in cash and allowed them to live in recreational vehicles and trailers on property he owns in Laveen, near 63rd Avenue and Baseline Road. Agents also surveilled a second property near 16th Avenue and Southern Avenue as part of the investigation.
An 18-page federal complaint filed on July 11 charges Angulo with four federal crimes: Alien in Possession of a Firearm, Harboring Illegal Aliens, Improper Entry by an Alien, and a Pattern and Practice of Knowingly Employing Unauthorized Aliens.
There are implications as well that Angulo may have been actively involved in smuggling his illegal employees into the United States, and charging them for it to boot. That, however, doesn’t appear to be in the charges filed:
In an interview, Angulo admitted that he knew what he was doing was illegal, but denied ever paying money to anyone to bring his employees across the southern border. One employee had a differing account, reportedly telling investigators he owed Angulo $12,000 for smuggling him into the United States.
Perhaps a taco shop employee is one of those jobs that, according to Democrats, America needs illegal aliens to do.
Angulo’s own admission that he knew what he was doing was illegal prompts the notion that, under the Biden administration, he had been housing and employing illegal aliens with little concern for the law, likely (and this is speculation, mind) assuming there was little risk of his being brought to account for it. Given the Biden administration’s fecklessness and lack of enforcement not only of the border but of immigration law in general, that’s not entirely unlikely.
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