So far 40 have been let go Lets see how many eles are
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May 13, 2008 1:10 | Updated May 13, 2008 8:07
Feds raid US kosher meatpacking plant
By MICHAL LANDO
Up to 700 employees at the AgriProcessor's Plant, the largest kosher meatpacking plant, could be arrested as part of an immigration raid Monday.
Federal agents descended upon the plant in northeast Iowa at around 10 a.m. to execute a criminal search warrant for evidence relating to identity theft and fraudulent use of Social Security numbers among other crimes, according to US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Agents were also executing a civil search warrant for people residing illegally in the United States.
"This is not the first time this office has been a part of a criminal worksite enforcement operation," said United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa Matt M. Dummermuth. "However, this is the largest operation of its type ever in Iowa."
Up to 500 agents and officers from federal, state, and local agencies were involved in Monday's raid, which had been in the works for months.
Anyone encountered during this operation who is discovered to be in the United States illegally eventually will be placed into administrative removal proceedings, officials said a press conference Monday afternoon. By midday ICE agents arrested more than 300 individuals for administrative immigration violations. All those taken into custody were being interviewed by ICE agents and Public Health Service officers to determine if they have health, caregiver, or other humanitarian concerns. As a result of those interviews, over 40 individuals have so far been released on humanitarian grounds pending future immigration proceedings.
This incident is the latest to befall meat processing plants owned by the Rubashkin family in the last few years. The plant in Postville Iowa, which opened in 1987, has been the target of several campaigns alleging inhumane slaughter practices and labor rights violations. Last month, the slaughterhouse was fined $182,000 by the Iowa Division of Labor, for a broad range of health and safety violations, including failing to provide workers with proper safety training and to label toxic chemicals used at the site.
AgriProcessor's Postville plant, the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the world, has been under scrutiny for its labor record since 2006 when the Forward newspaper reported on working conditions in a series of articles.
After learning of the raid, Congressman Bruce Baley, of Iowa, said he hoped there would be consequences for the employers, not just the employees. "Until we enforce our immigration laws equally against both employers and employees who break the law, we will continue to have a problem with immigration," said Baley.
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Lets build that wall
FINN
More of the jobs Americans wont do making $12. to $22. per hour there doing for $6. and displacing American workers 300 in just this one plant which fines it cheaper to pay fines then higher Americans and they all had illegal ID and ss# which they received by identity thieves.