390 Arrested at Iowa Meat Packing plant

[Facetious]

Immigration arrests at Iowa meat plant total 390

"Our company takes the immigration laws seriously. We cooperated with the government in the enforcement action," the company said in a statement.



Tue May 13, 5:56 PM ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Immigration arrests at the Agriprocessors Inc meat plant in Postville, Iowa, totaled 390, making it the largest number of such arrests at a single U.S. location, an immigration official said on Tuesday.
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"Every one of the 390 were arrested for administrative immigration violations. They were arrested for being in the country illegally," said Tim Counts, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit, which led the raid on the plant on Monday.

Criminal charges may still be filed against some of the 390, said Counts.

Of those arrested 314 were men. Also 290 were Guatemalan, 93 Mexican, four Ukrainian, and three Israeli, said Counts.

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I hate when corporations exploit an illegal workforce, simply to line their pockets.
That's what it's all about, IMO. It's not that Americans won't do the work, the question is - at what rate (salary/ wage) is the job equitable for the American worker.

 

[bigmac]

I honestly thought the story was going to be about the Farmland Plant in Denison Iowa.
I'm sure in the other Iowa plant the story is about and possibly at Farmland too the immigrants are paid under the table in cash. I think that the businesses should be fined if they aren't giving out fair wages, or if they aren't making the immigrants have some sort of identification that says they are legal to work in the US.

 

[bombardier52]

It's about time. This doesn't happen enough. I hope they pack it (get it?) up the asses of the owners and HR people.

 

[thapie]

i do think that this sort of thing exists on all sorts of levels from big companies down to lawn service companies and the like.

 

[dave_rhino]

That's a hell of a lot of paperwork. I'm surprised they bothered...

 

[sputnikgirl]

They must be cracking down recently...a couple of restaurants in my area were shut down for illegals too.

 

[calpoon]

"Our company takes the immigration laws seriously. We cooperated with the government in the enforcement action,"

I love this quote. They took it so seriously that they hired a bunch of illegals. and how did they cooperate with the government? they didn't run them all out the back door when they saw the cops coming? What fine upstanding citizens they are!

 

[Becks...poamr]

I love this quote. They took it so seriously that they hired a bunch of illegals. and how did they cooperate with the government? they didn't run them all out the back door when they saw the cops coming? What fine upstanding citizens they are!

Maybe it was a sting operation?

Entrapment?

Lying their asses off?

 

[Sicario]

So does this mean that there are 390 job openings and Americans on welfare have a chance to find steady employment? Then I think this is a good thing...

 

[D-rock]

I love this quote. They took it so seriously that they hired a bunch of illegals. and how did they cooperate with the government? they didn't run them all out the back door when they saw the cops coming? What fine upstanding citizens they are!

I'm sure they only inadvertently hired a couple hundred illegals.

 

[bombardier52]

I'm sure they only inadvertently hired a couple hundred illegals.

I know it happens to me all the time.

 

[calpoon]

that makes me think of the movie Fun with Dick and Jane. where Jim Carey is desperate for money and so he hooks up with a bunch of migrant workers and ends up getting deported to Mexico. the movie kind of sucks. but that premise is rather funny.

Now that I think about it, even funnier is in Up in Smoke, where Cheech and Chong want go to a wedding in Mexico, so they call up immigration and report themselves as illegals so that they can get a free ride down there.

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

lou dobbs and bill o'reilly must be happy