21.  Employers rarely face sanctions for illegal workers, as long as they can show that they checked the documents presented to them.

22.  Federal agents said that the case was the first in which they have charged a company with conspiracy for bringing illegal workers from Mexico into the United States.

23.  Federal officials said Friday they have broken a major international cartel that smuggled illegal workers from India and other countries into the United States through Texas and Florida.

24.  Federal raids on meatpacking plants sent many illegal workers back to their countries.

25.  Farmers hire scores of illegal workers and escape liability by paying licensed farm labor contractors provide crews.

26.  For illegal workers that means time to change names, get new papers or change jobs.

27.  Given its staffing, the immigration service focuses on investigating crimes by foreigners, domestic smuggling and illegal workers, said Eyleen Schmidt, a spokeswoman for the INS.

28.  Goetz Wolff, research director for the County Federation of Labor, cited overseas competition, fragmentation and the ready supply of illegal workers available to less scrupulous operators.

29.  Government investigators said that executives in Springdale knew about the smuggling of illegal workers and that the company helped immigrants get counterfeit work documents.

30.  He is the father of four children and a frequent illegal worker at an Israeli restaurant in the nearby city of Rishon Letzion.