Opinion ID: 751803
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Klehm's Employment of Illegal Aliens

Text: 3 During Fawley's tenure at the nursery, approximately fifty illegal Mexican aliens, few of whom spoke English, worked at the nursery and were assigned various labor-intensive tasks, including the staking up of peonie plants in the fields as well as cleaning, cutting, and preparing peonie roots for shipment. Klehm also operated an employment agency called Temporary Services, Inc., to assist the illegal aliens in gaining employment during the slow winter season. 4 The workers lived year-round in residences, which Klehm owned, located at 1501 Queensway, 1213 Redwood, 1118 West Church, 1524 Hollyhill, and 1405 Fairfax, all in Champaign. The inhabitants of the Queensway apartments paid a total of $1,600 per month in rent, while the inhabitants at the Redwood unit paid a total of $800 per month. Both of the housing units were well over capacity; in fact the Queensway dwellings had beds for only six, while a total of sixteen people were living there at one point. Both of Klehm's rental houses were in deplorable shape, with cockroaches and piles of garbage in the kitchen and furnace areas. 5