Fircrest, Washington, United States
ICE agents were led to her home by a package from China that was intercepted by Customs agents in San Francisco. Inside they found a phoney Chinese Passport had been hidden in a space hollowed out of a magazine. The package was destined for a woman at SHU’s University Place home. When agents arrived at the home they found a dozen people living there, many of whom worked at SHU’s Tacoma restaurant, the Rainbow Buffet. Eight of the individuals did not have legal status to remain in the United States. Interviews of these undocumented workers also disclosed that they either had not been paid for their work, or were being paid extremely low wages.
Location
United States · Fircrest, Washington · 2005 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
ICE agents arrested SHU on June 20, 2005 and found eight people living in her University Place home in Tacoma, WA who did not have legal status to reside in the United States.
SHU was ordered to bay $51,923 in restitution by the court. The money was used to pay back wages to the victims she unlawfully employed in her restaurant.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division
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