GOODY TWO SHOES: Homeland Security Begins At Home
Lorraine Henderson, regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection for the Port of Boston, was arrested by agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Professional Responsibility for allegedly hiring illegal immigrants to clean her home, reports The Boston Globe:
According to an eight-page affidavit unsealed today, Henderson had employed a Brazilian woman to clean her home for $75 to $80 every few weeks for several years. Henderson's fellow officers at US Customs and Border Protection told her in 2005 and 2006 that it was against the law to hire illegal immigrants and urged her to find another housekeeper. Not only did she ignore the advice, according to the affidavit, but when the housekeeper took time off to have a baby, Henderson also allegedly hired two of the housekeeper's Brazilian friends who were also in the country illegally.
If convicted, Henderson could be sentenced to a prison term of up to 10 years and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine.
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