Raids in 6 states may be largest ever (ICE & Homeland Security make 'SWIFT" move.. 1,282 arrests)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/13/06 | Jennifer Tanhelm - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Monica Salazar, 26, holds a sign at the entrance of a Swift & Company meat processing in Greeley, Colo., Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006, as Federal agents raided the facility, and arrested an unknown number of suspected illegal immigrants in an identity theft investigation, according to officials. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

[gubamyster]

ping

[NormsRevenge]

DOUG WELLS/THE REGISTER

Hector Angel, a Marshalltown business owner, states his point of view about the raid as ICE buses roll away from the plant.

[Tenacious 1]

Just 998,718 to go. At this rate we'll all be speaking spanish in 75 years instead of 50.

Good work.

[kcvl]

"Don't take my parents at Christmas." ???!!!

Don't take my parent's IDENTIY at ANY TIME!

Your 'parents' and YOU need to GO HOME!

[Tenacious 1]

...in other unrelated news, it is suspected that 2,500 illegal immigrants successfully and safely infiltrated the United States today....

[darkwing104]

How many were released several hours after being booked...

[Andy'smom]

"Don't take my parents at Christmas."



I'll starve!!!

[Tenacious 1]

[How many were released several hours after being booked...]

I suspect all of them. What federal prison has room for 1,200 prisoners?

[Wormwood]

You may be correct, but that doesn't negate the value of actually enforcing immigration laws.

[NormsRevenge]

the 65 held on criminal charges may not be going anywhere fast or soon,, but the bulk likely will be deported..

btw, I thought we no longer did catch and release... at least at the border anyway.. I could be wrong on that..

[struwwelpeter]

A friend at Swift in Worthington, MN, said that they arrested almost 400 of the 1700 employees at the plant.

[Constitution Day]

ICE, ICE Baby!

[Bonaparte]

Exactly. And of those returned to Mexico, how many will just come right back across our "open border" that very day and be hired that afternoon?

These raids come 5 years too late. Can you say "window dressing"? I knew that you could.

[Portnoy]

No charges were filed against Swift.

Why???? Obviously Swift looks the other way when confirming an employees' ID.

Stop the Corporations form hiring illegals and the illegals will have no where to work.

[TChris]

The company estimated a raid would remove up to 40 percent of its 13,000 workers. Greeley-based Swift describes itself as the world's second-largest meat processor with sales of about $9 billion.

This little tidbit convinces me that the owners and management of Swift should be arrested and tried on immigration / conspiracy charges.

They're obviously culpable in this.

[Dixie Yooper]

[How many were released several hours after being booked...]

I suspect all of them. What federal prison has room for 1,200 prisoners? Why couldn't those buses keep going all the way to Old Mexico?

[Dixie Yooper]

[How many were released several hours after being booked...]

I suspect all of them. What federal prison has room for 1,200 prisoners?

Why couldn't those buses keep going all the way to Old Mexico?

[66-442hot]

This will end up like the last big round up at the company that makes pallets. Arrested 1200 illegals. Kept 36 and released the rest with a note to return on another day.

Makes a big splash in the news to quiet our heathen bossoms for a while. I'll wait until I see how many are sent packing. I'd bet it isn't many!!

[DonaldC]

They are probably contract workers. This raid is nothing...let me know when they sweep up illegals by the tens of thousands.