Businesswoman Sentenced For Hiring Illegal Immigrants
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- The co-owner of an Iowa City roofing company has been given 18 months in federal prison for harboring and employing illegal immigrants.
Samira Zuniga had pleaded guilty to harboring and transporting an illegal immigrant and one count of conspiracy to transport, harbor, encourage and induce illegal immigrants to live in the United States.
Federal prosecutors say in a news release that the 34-year-old Zuniga was sentenced Monday in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
Authorities say Homeland Security officials in April arrested nine illegal immigrants working for the company Zuniga co-owned with her husband, Xtreme Construction.
Prosecutors say Zuniga's husband was an illegal immigrant and that he and the couple's children returned to Mexico after the workers were arrested.
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