Immigration Raids Across the Country
9:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| Justice| Labor
13 Dec 2006
When we visit our local supermarkets to pick up some beef, chicken, or pork to cook for dinner, we rarely think about who packs our would be dinners. Although it’s unclear how many workers at Swift & Co. plants in six states across the country were rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that went down, it’s clear that workers are the target and not the big company owners.
The raids capped a 10-month investigation. Authorities did not say how mnay people were arrested at the plants in Greeley; Grand Island, Neb.; Cactus, Texas; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington, Minn. No charges had been filed against Swift. In a written statement, President and CEO Sam Rovit said the company has never knowingly hired illegal workers and does not condone the practice.
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2 Responses to Immigration Raids Across the Country
Pachacutec
December 13th, 2006 at 10:01 am
We do a bit or regular blogging about labor issues at our site, and it’s encouraging that the SEIU was successful in getting a good contract for janitors in Houston, of all places, many of whom were latinos.
My sense is, after the big immigration rallies in the Spring, there wasn’t very much done to get people organized or registered to vote. If you have any information on that, I’d love to see more about it. I’ve only recently discovered your site and am glad to have found it.
Keep up the great work!
brad
December 13th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Apparently, these folks were caught because they used social security numbers belonging to other people. So, they were arrested for identity theft. If the evidence stands against them and they accept a pleas bargain that lets them go home, they’ll have a felony conviction that will prevent them from ever returning to the U.S.
Creating a guest worker program would be the best policy for ending this kind of suffering. No one would have to hide their status or use phony paperwork. Additionally, major reform needs to take place in their home countries to create opportunity.