Dozens of Nepalese workers missing from Ala. plant
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- About 100 people who came from Nepal to work at a north Alabama factory seemingly vanished from a pair of apartment buildings, along with a lot of furniture and appliances, and can't be located, officials said Tuesday.
Immigration agents are trying to determine what happened to the Nepalese workers, among hundreds brought to the United States to work at a DVD factory operated by Cinram Inc., said Lauren Bethune, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Homeland Security.
"We do not in any way consider it a security threat, but we do think it is important," she said.
A Huntsville television station, WAAY-TV, first reported on the missing workers.
Cinram's human resources director, Peter Hassler, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. But a spokesman for a company that recruited the workers for Cinram said a contact in Nepal believes many of them have returned home.
"Most of the people he was talking to said they came to America, did what they wanted to do and went back home," said Doug Wilson, president of Ambassador Personnel in Thomasville, Ga. "These are people with pretty strong family ties."
Mary and Tim Snopl told the TV station they rented apartments in two buildings last fall to about 240 workers from Nepal. But Mary Snopl said scores of the workers are now missing, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of furniture, televisions and kitchenware.
"I don't know if they're living in Huntsville or somewhere else, I just know they aren't living with us and they aren't working at Cinram," she said.
Wilson said his company was seeking a list of items believed to be missing.
Reports last fall said Cinram had hired about 1,350 foreign workers to package DVDs at its plant in Huntsville. Cinram - which describes itself as the world's largest maker of pre-recorded multimedia products - said it turned to foreign workers because the area job market couldn't fill its needs.
Bethune said about 100 immigrants were believed to be missing. Agents are trying to determine exactly what type of visas they used to enter the United States.
"It's possible that they had work visas, they expired, and they went home," she said.
The workers can earn $8 an hour working 12-hour shifts packing DVDs in boxes. Besides Nepal, Cinram has used foreign workers from Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Ukraine
If your figure are anywhere close, $ 6250000 is lot of money. I hope homeland security looks into this guys;s record, Niliesh Kumar Thakur and locks his ass in jail.
i hope somebody in the US embassy in Nepal is in deep shit.... they have always given me hard time during visa interviews doubting that i will be stuck in the US... yada yada yada ...and now they give H2-B visa to 100 people believing that they would all return back......what was that person smoking? freshly printed nepali notes, i suppose !!!....
There ain't no Indian dude (or any other counselors) working in the US embassy that gives away visas. You've been fed expired and baseless information. All these folks came here on a contract from Cinram (a mutli-billion dollar revenue corporation) the legit way. However, once these Neps got here, they decided to go illegit.
Also, The dhoti guy who got the contract from Cinram to bring in the Nep workers is estimated to have sent atleast 200 Neps here! As per estimates, this dude who made roughly 20 crores NRs is now at large as both the cops and the Maobadis are after him...All in all, A brilliant strategy but to every easy money comes a price!! Wait...now, the US govt is gonna be after him too. Damn, was it worth it in the end??
They are openly permitting undocumented immigrants to participate in federal elections in Arizona now.
Trasiting through Istanbul, Turkey
lost $3500 on penny stocks !!!
Is this a progressive step?
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