Undocumented Immigrants at Your Local 7-Eleven?

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The New York Timesreports that federal authorities seized 14 7-Eleven stores on Long Island, New York and in Virginia early Monday, arresting nine owners and managers and charging them with harboring and hiring undocumented immigrants and using false Social Security numbers.

UPDATE (June 19):  For more details on the immigrants held in “plantation-like” conditions on Long Island, click here.

KJ

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