URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin 1-24-18 – 7:38 p.m. ET
Indictment: Following U.S. Border Patrol busts in the Marquette area
Yet unanswered is who knew – someone allowed illegal aliens to be hired at the construction site of the new U.P. Health System-Marquette hospital
By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433
(Marquette, MI) – The Mexican man who handled a group of illegals at the new hospital construction site in Marquette, MI was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury.
Several illegals were arrested – but only the primary suspect was charged with a federal crime – that charges him with being a deport illegal who has returned the to the U.S. countless times over the past decade to get work.
The indictment was returned on Tues., Jan. 23, 2018 by a federal grand jury sitting in Marquette, MI.
Mqt illegals indictment 1-23-18
35-year-old Jose Antonio Lopez-Ramos, like the other illegal workers arrested last month, is awaiting deportation and lodged in the Chippewa County Jail that holds federal prisoners. Ramos will likely be sent back to Mexico soon – as has happened many times before.
However, one big question has not been answered in federal paperwork – who knew about the illegal workers being hired. What construction company – and construction employment firm – arranged for the illegals to get employment.
These things do not happen in a vacuum – someone in Marquette had to know – and if history is any judge in Marquette it was most likely a white male boss.
Even under the best blush, Marquette officials in charge of the construction site did not want to know – and that’s being generous.
The suspects were arrested on Dec. 19, 2017 while leaving a motel in Marquette Township by agents from the Sault Ste. Marie office of the U.S. Border Patrol and Customs. Just last week, the Soo border patrol office arrested 17 illegals who were seeking work at constructions sites in the northern Lower Peninsula
For more background read our previous stories:
URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin 1-5-18 – 9:25 p.m. ET Federal documents outline the hiring of illegal workers at the new hospital construction site in Marquette, MI
U.S. Border Patrol continues busts in the Marquette area – illegal aliens hired at construction site of the new U.P. Health System-Marquette hospital
By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433
(Marquette, MI) – The construction site at the new Marquette hospital allegedly had a reputation of hiring illegal aliens – and complaints made it to the border patrol – who moved in.
The case is outlined in a federal criminal complaint.
The primary suspect, Jose Antonio Lopez-Ramos, is being held without bond lodged in the Chippewa County Jail that holds federal prisoners. Ramos will likely be sent back to Mexico soon – as has happened many times before.
On Jan. 3, 2018, Ramos was given the federal equivalent of a court-appointed defense attorney.
Ramos is being represented by U.S. Public Defender Beth LaCosse at the federal public defender’s office in Marquette.
Ramos was arrested on Dec. 19, 2017 the U.S. Border Patrol and Customs.
Since June 2016, agents have been investigating reports of oft-returned Mexican workers living in Marquette County – and working at the new U.P. Health System-Marquette hospital.
A criminal complaint describes how agents conducted surveillance pm two vehicles – and Marquette area hotel rooms containing illegals.
The illegal hiring investigation was launched based on numerous complaints to the “Sault Ste. Marie Border Patrol Station,” a federal criminal complaint states.
“These reports indicated that some of the undocumented aliens are working at the construction site of the new hospital located in Marquette, Michigan,” the complaint reveals.
Agents moved in as Ramos and others were leaving a Marquette Township hotel in one of the vehicles they were staking out.
Ramos opened the rear-driver’s side door and “attempted to flee.” Agents chased him a short distance on foot and made their arrest, the criminal complaint states.
Ramos is charged in federal court with “reentry of a removed alien.”
Ramos is a citizen of Mexico. He hast been caught trying to fly into the U.S. In Feb. 2007 aboard a passenger plane. Ramos was returned to Mexico.
In July 2014, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Ramos in Texas. He was returned to Mexico again.
In Feb. 2015, border patrol agents caught him in Texas near the border. He was sentenced to 110 days in prison – then deported once again.
Usually, the cases end with the illegal alien being sent home – sometimes many times.
Among those investigating the case is U.S. Border Patrol officer Alexander T. Carlson.
The case is in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy P. Greeley at federal court in Marquette, MI.
Ramos made his initial appearance at U.S. District Court in Marquette on Dec. 27, 2017 before Magistrate Judge Greeley.
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