6 State Raid Catches Illegals
In one of the largest raids ever, Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) swept through the meat processing plants of Swift & Co., the second largest meat processing company in the world. In the 6 state raid, 1,282 arrested, including 1,217 on immigration charges and 65 on criminal charges such as identity theft. Swift employs 13,000 throughout its plants. The raids followed a 10-month investigation into illegal immigrants suspected of buying or stealing other people's identities to secure U.S. jobs. The scheme may have had hundreds of victims, officials said.
Immigration officials last month informed Swift that it would remove unauthorized workers on Dec. 4, but Swift asked a federal judge to prevent agents from conducting the raid, arguing it would cause "substantial and irreparable injury" to its business.
After a closed hearing, a judge on Thursday rejected Swift's request, clearing the way for Tuesday's raids at the plants in Greeley; Grand Island; Cactus, Texas; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington, Minn.
In a written statement, President and CEO Sam Rovit said the company has never knowingly hired illegal workers and does not condone the practice. Swift uses a government pilot program to confirm whether Social Security numbers are valid.
We are glad to hear that ICE & the Department of Homeland Security are finally taking some initiative in cracking down on illegal aliens in the work force. This needs to continue in ever increasing raids. The 1,200 arrested represents 10% of Swift's employees! Swift covered itself by verifying Social Security numbers with a government program, but they cannot verify fraudulent SSN cards or other forms of ID.
Identity theft is a large problems & illegals have no qualms with stealing your identity to further embed themselves into American society. The pro-illegal alien crowd bemoans the fact that illegals are arrested, but they give a rats ass that somewhere there are victims of identity theft because of these illegals.
We applaud ICE for the raids & can't wait for more.
Immigration officials last month informed Swift that it would remove unauthorized workers on Dec. 4, but Swift asked a federal judge to prevent agents from conducting the raid, arguing it would cause "substantial and irreparable injury" to its business.
After a closed hearing, a judge on Thursday rejected Swift's request, clearing the way for Tuesday's raids at the plants in Greeley; Grand Island; Cactus, Texas; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington, Minn.
In a written statement, President and CEO Sam Rovit said the company has never knowingly hired illegal workers and does not condone the practice. Swift uses a government pilot program to confirm whether Social Security numbers are valid.
We are glad to hear that ICE & the Department of Homeland Security are finally taking some initiative in cracking down on illegal aliens in the work force. This needs to continue in ever increasing raids. The 1,200 arrested represents 10% of Swift's employees! Swift covered itself by verifying Social Security numbers with a government program, but they cannot verify fraudulent SSN cards or other forms of ID.
Identity theft is a large problems & illegals have no qualms with stealing your identity to further embed themselves into American society. The pro-illegal alien crowd bemoans the fact that illegals are arrested, but they give a rats ass that somewhere there are victims of identity theft because of these illegals.
We applaud ICE for the raids & can't wait for more.
posted by Francis Lynn at 7:46 PM
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