I remember that incident at the Swift meat packing plant.  When they did the raid some of the individuals that had been working there were brought up against federal charges and remained in custody of U.S Marshal Services pending their criminal charges.......and some that were being brought against state criminal charges remained in the custody of the State and would face the criminal charges and serve their sentence then upon being released from custody face the inevitable of swift deportation.

A good friend of mine in Florida turned in a Hispanic man (who happened to be an illegal alien) going from trash can to trash can seeking out aluminum cans.  That's not all he was seeking out.   He sifted through garbage to locate personal information and successfully acquired a new identity...... and sold the information to other illegals that worked with him.   Disgusting!!!    He is currently still in jail. 

POTSVILLE, Iowa (CBS News) ― It was the largest single immigration raid in the country. There were 700 warrants and 300 arrests. Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant, lost three quarters of its workforce, reports CBS Evening News correspondent Russ Mitchell. And tiny Postville, Iowa lost one out of every three of its residents. "I would say we lost a good third of our people," said Postville Mayor Bob Penrod. "It's a pretty substantial hit."

Businesses that had served the Hispanic community struggled or shuttered after the May 12 raid. The meatpacking plant scrambled to replace 700 workers -- at one point busing in the homeless from Texas.

"This has not created anything good for the community," said Father Paul Ouderkirk, a former pastor at St. Bridget's Church "It's created division, hurt, harm."

Most of the nearly 300 undocumented workers arrested are serving five months sentences for identity theft, but some 40 women along with their 90 children are still living in Postville, awaiting a court date. Unable to work, the families are completely dependent on St. Bridget's Catholic church for food, rent money and medical care. Maria Cruz is one of those women.

"They took my husband and left me with my three sons and I can't work," Cruz said. "It makes you feel humiliated and we didn't do anything bad, the only thing we did was come here to work."

Cruz has to wear a tracking bracelet 24 hours a day and cannot leave Iowa until her case comes to trial. Maria also told CBS News that after the raid, her last paycheck was missing 20 hours of overtime and she was not paid for two weeks of vacation time she had earned - money she desperately needs now.

Two Agriprocessor managers are facing indictment for assisting plant workers get fake identity cards. Now the federal Labor Department is investigating the plant for child labor violations; the equal Employment Oppotunity Commision is looking into sexual harrasment charges; and lawyers for the immigrants are working on a lawsuit over wage and hour violations. And over the years, there have been repeated charges of safety violations.

"The line behind us was dangerous, it was all sharp knives," Cruz said.

"It was the dirtiest, unsafest plant I've ever been in," Father Ouderkirk said.

Many of Ouderkirk's parishioners worked at Agriprocessors. He has toured the plant and says workers there were routinely mistreated.

"We're dealing with them -- we've seen them -- the kid without three fingers and the one with his hand missing, and when I was a pastor here I took how many people to the doctor with cuts," Ouderkirk said.

Agriprocessors denies employing underage workers, and would not discuss any pending litigation, but says it has begun to make changes in the plant.

"We have hired a compliance officer, that was reported to everybody, and I'm not going to get into the details, but I think it was reported, many new and improved systems," said Chaim Abraham with Adriprocessors.

Still, that's not enough for Fr. Paul.

"They have a responsibility to this whole community that they never lived up to," Ouderkirk said. "They painted a good picture, but their actions spoke a different story."

 

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"They took my husband and left me with my three sons and I can't work," Cruz said. "It makes you feel humiliated and we didn't do anything bad, the only thing we did was come here to work''.

I am so tired of these types of article that try and paint these people as victims..............ILLEGAL ALIENS are not VICTIMS...........This lady and her husband both broke the law and they both knew it was illegal for them to come here in the first place........I have no heart for these people that put themselves in this position.  I HOPE THAT OUR COURT SYSTEM THROWS THE BOOK AT THEM........It's time that we use these criminals as example to other criminal illegal aliens that the USA don't wont you here unless you are legal.

This kosher meatpacking plant and its managers all need to be shut down and put in jail for hiring illegals ans for encouraging ID theft........

I agree..... I thought it was ironic when you posted this and then another raid happens.  Thought  you might rejoice in the good news of another bust!!!!

It is a election year.........