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Clearly, if as wzambon kept explaining to me, their green cards and work authorizations were in their work lockers, wouldn't the cheapest and quickest way to resolve things be....for their attorney to get the documents from their employer, and provide those proofs to the government???
I can theorize plenty: ICE cleaned out their lockers as "evidence", or sealed the lockers, so no-one else could open them. If ICE wanted to meet it's quota, grab their dox, and hide them, so the lawyer can't get them. I doubt an I-9 would really prove anything, as the information given could be declared "fake".
That state may have a privacy law that prevents an employer searching an employee's locker, so the relatives picked up the stuff, then gave it to the lawyer.
I don't see anyone prosecuting the owner or manager of the car wash for employing "illegals", or employing them off the books to cheat on taxes.
We can parse the language in the reports we read all day.
Best bet is see what happens at the habeas hearing, if ICE shows up, if the detainees are still in the country.
Steve
