"Was there some evidence that there were illegal aliens working for that company?"
Do you mean aside from the fellow who was being arrested? This is what we call Probable Cause. It's why, for instance, having an open container of alcoholic beverage in your motor vehicle is grounds for a sobriety test. While it is not direct evidence that you have been consuming said beverage and then operating your vehicle under the influence thereof, the one follows from the other.
Now I'll certainly admit that I'm not familiar with the statistics of these things, but it seems that if an employer has hired one individual who has entered the country illegally, the employment policies that they have in place are more likely to be lax enough to be exploitable by other individuals who seek employment under other false pretenses.
This is admittedly a naive line of reasoning, because I'm not familiar with the statistics of such things. But the inverse line of reasoning - holding that simply because there is one illegally-employed individual, doesn't suggest that there is probable cause to believe that there are more - is just as naive, without the appropriate data.
It is not unreasonable to operate from the premise that the law enforcement agency involved with this operation A) keeps records of their arrests and B) collates these records to generate statistics from which they can develop policies and SOPs. It is also reasonable to believe that checking the employment status of the other employees was within the scope of these policies.
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Do you mean aside from the fellow who was being arrested? This is what we call Probable Cause. It's why, for instance, having an open container of alcoholic beverage in your motor vehicle is grounds for a sobriety test. While it is not direct evidence that you have been consuming said beverage and then operating your vehicle under the influence thereof, the one follows from the other.
Now I'll certainly admit that I'm not familiar with the statistics of these things, but it seems that if an employer has hired one individual who has entered the country illegally, the employment policies that they have in place are more likely to be lax enough to be exploitable by other individuals who seek employment under other false pretenses.
This is admittedly a naive line of reasoning, because I'm not familiar with the statistics of such things. But the inverse line of reasoning - holding that simply because there is one illegally-employed individual, doesn't suggest that there is probable cause to believe that there are more - is just as naive, without the appropriate data.
It is not unreasonable to operate from the premise that the law enforcement agency involved with this operation A) keeps records of their arrests and B) collates these records to generate statistics from which they can develop policies and SOPs. It is also reasonable to believe that checking the employment status of the other employees was within the scope of these policies.