Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 22

Wisconsin Restaurant Owner Sentenced For Harboring Illegal Aliens

Milwaukee, Wis.—An ICE investigation has led to the conviction and sentencing of a Wisconsin restaurant owner for hiring illegal aliens to work in his restaurants and providing them with fake identity documents.

Steven Metzler, 46, the co-owner of Julie’s Café LLC, was sentenced October 13 to five years probation and six months house confinement and fined $25,000.

From 1998 until June 15, 2004, Julie’s Café, which has two restaurants in Green Bay and one in DePere, Wis., engaged in a pattern and practice of hiring illegal aliens. Owned by Metzler and his wife, the restaurants regularly employed illegal aliens who were required to purchase false identification documents from the owners in order to work. The aliens were paid in cash and the fee for the false identity was deducted from their wages. Metzler harbored the illegal aliens by providing them with employment at Julie’s Cafés

Julie’s Café LLC was charged with a pattern and practice of employing illegal aliens, and Metzler pleaded guilty to one count of harboring illegal aliens

“We believe Julie’s Café and its owner were deliberately flaunting the immigration laws of this country by hiring illegal aliens and providing those workers with bogus identity documents,” said Brian Falvey, resident agent-in-charge of the Milwaukee ICE office. “ICE will use all its law enforcement authorities to investigate these types of violations.”

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