The immigrants don't lower the wages, the employers do. Only when I see real efforts to jail the employers will I find it acceptable to also go after the immigrants. Anything else is a class-based system, which is morally wrong and legally biased.

I don't know if this particular employer is guilty of anything. But thousands of others are and aren't being prosecuted.

Of course, that resulted in at least one citizen with dark skin being swept up into the non-citizen line.

   If only for a few minutes, Maria felt like an "illegal alien" in her homeland - the United States of America.
    She thought she was going on break from her job at the Swift & Co. meat processing plant here on Tuesday, but instead she and others were forced to stand in a line by U.S. immigration agents. Non-Latinos and people with lighter skin were plucked out of line and given blue bracelets.
    The rest, mostly Latinos with brown skin, waited until they were "cleared" or arrested by "la migra," the popular name in Spanish for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), employees said.
    "I was in the line because of the color of my skin," she said, her voice shaking.  "They're discriminating against me. I'm from the United States, and I didn't even get a blue bracelet."
    Maria was one of hundreds of plant employees targeted by federal agents. But she and her husband were the lucky ones - later Tuesday, they returned home to their three sons.

    Women were crying as they were handcuffed with plastic ties and put on the buses. Some weren't allowed to get their belongings from their lockers. Maria, who declined to use her last name, argued with an agent because she was getting the coat for her 34-year-old niece, Blanca, who was arrested.
    "She [the agent] told me, 'Do you think it's going to be cold in Mexico?'" Maria said, holding back tears. "I've never seen people get treated como animales."

Well, when you turn their treatment over to federal agents, they get treated worse than animals.

For Maria, it's not about immigration status, it's about "being brown."
She said she hopes the authorities are not targeting Latinos.

1. secure the illegal immigrants, and question them as to the source of the false documents they presented to the employers.

2. secure the false documents themselves from the employers. as well, i assume the employers will be on the hook too, since my professional experience has shown me that most of those fraudulent docs are obviously bogus, and the employer reasonably should have suspected.

i await "the rest of the story" to explain why this is such a horrible thing, which clearly, from the tenor of your comments, you think it is.

And, bear in mind that those who oppose raids such as this are automatically supporters of illegal immigration and all of its associated abuses. The only way to prevent illegal immigration - and those associated abuses - is by enforcing our laws, which frequently means conducting immigration raids. In other words, there is no magical way to oppose both illegal immigration and immigration raids.

Another recent raid highlights some of those abuses that illegal immigration supporters support: