SYRACUSE — A Florida man pleaded guilty Friday to employing illegal aliens for agricultural work in Cayuga County.
Salvador Hernandez, 50, of Belle Glade, Fla., faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to hire at least 10 people he knew were in the United States illegally in 2008 and 2009.
At the time, Hernandez was a crew foreman for Sunrise Labor, Inc., a Belle Glade–based company that provides workers to harvest field crops, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is an investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. Hernandez was hiring for work at a farm in King Ferry in Cayuga County.
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“Thanks to the diligent and extensive investigative work conducted by … special agents from our offices in Buffalo, Syracuse, and West Palm Beach [Fla.], along with our partners at the Border Patrol, this case will send a clear message that those who choose to utilize or harbor a workforce comprised of illegal aliens will be held accountable for their actions,” Nick DiNicola, assistant special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations operations in Albany, said in a news release.
Hernandez is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 8 in Syracuse. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard R. Southwick of the Northern District of New York is prosecuting the case.
Contact Seltzer at rseltzer@cnybj.com
