When will the CEO of Swift be in jail?
Here's the link to the raid at the Swift plant in Marshalltown Iowa http://www.timesrepublican.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=5016
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Then Congress can come back next year and coo sympathetically about the 'need' for a 'guest worker program' (we have about 20 or 30 of them now in the various visa programs).
It's a political stunt. Do it once, maximize the outcry (look forward to heart rending videos this evening on national news), then 'solve' the problem with surrender legislation.
what a shame, businesses voluntarily employing workers who are voluntarily employed have been shut down by big government....
Environmental Power Corporation's Microgy, Inc. Subsidiary Signs Letter of Intent with Swift & Company to Develop Waste-to-Energy Facility at Grand Island, Nebraska Beef Plant
"Randy Hull, President of Microgy, added, "We believe that there is the potential to recover energy values in excess of about 1,200,000 MMBTU's per year from multiple digesters within Swift's network of eight beef and pork processing plants and that this demonstrates the capability of anaerobic technology to generate significant amounts of energy from waste materials. That's equivalent to over 25,000 barrels per day of heating oil, and, as a result, projects like this have the potential to greatly reduce our dependence on imported hydrocarbons, whether they be oil or liquefied natural gas. We look forward to exceeding Swift's expectations with the initial project at their world class facility in Grand Island."
http://ir.environmentalpower.com/releaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=189567
"Swift & Company’s comprehensive work authorization diligence has included, since 1997,
participation in the federal Basic Pilot program – a voluntary, online verification system that
allows employers to confirm the eligibility of new hires by checking the personal information
they provide against federal databases. Today, Swift remains one of the very few employers to
use the system. All Company domestic production facilities have agreements in place with the
federal government under Basic Pilot – agreements which contain provisions that are supposed
to protect employers who properly comply with the Basic Pilot program from governmentinitiated
civil and criminal penalties.
Current law limits an employer’s ability to scrutinize the background and identity of new hires,
and – as Swift learned first-hand – employers can, in fact, be punished for probing too deeply
into applicants’ backgrounds. Specifically, in 2001 the Department of Justice’s Special Counsel
for Unfair Immigration-Related Employment Practices brought a complaint against Swift for an
alleged “pattern and practice” of document-based discrimination against job applicants, and
sought civil damages of $2.5 million. After two years of cooperation and negotiation, Swift
settled the claim, with no admission of guilt, for approximately $200,000."
http://www.swiftbrands.com/media/releases/2006_12_12_Swift_ICE_Interviews.PDF
One of the major issues is that there is identity theft involved. There will never be a dent made in illegal aliens if they raid 100 every couple months, but alerting everybody to the danger of identity theft might do some good.
He needs to be removed from office.
Note to ICE: Please hit all the Tyson chicken plants next. Also, start locking up CEO's and this stuff will stop tomorrow.
whoo hoo ping
No, no manaement is involved. These illegal workers were picked up on SS fraud charges. My guess is that ICE will release them and they will continue on doing the same darn thing they were doing before.
This whole thing will mean nothing if a few white collars don't do the perp walk.
Definately not Swiftly enough.