Owner of Riviera Beach company sentenced to 16 months in prison for hiring illegal workers

It's about damn time the Feds cracked down on the ones aiding and abetting illegals.

WEST PALM BEACH — The national battle over the government's inability to stem the tide of illegal immigrants got personal Friday in a federal courtroom.

U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra bristled at the suggestion that the government's time would be better spent keeping illegal immigrants from entering the country than prosecuting a suburban West Palm Beach man for hiring them. Business people such as Mark David, Marra said, are a big part of the problem.

"One of the reason they come is because people hire them," Marra said. "If people wouldn't hire them they wouldn't be coming in droves."

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