[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)

[television is just wrong]

lol, she can go home with them.

[Recall]

This is the biggest bunch of BULL. PLEASE, don't believe our govt is really doing something..

1. ICE told Swift in November they were going to conduct the raids.

2. Swift took it to court (I think that was Dec 4) and lost. They have known since at least Dec 7, the raids were going to take place.

3. Then Swift fired 400 employees prior to the raids. Probably a publicity move (see we are doing something) or maybe workers they wanted to get back on board when things calmed down??

4. And, hundreds didn't show up for work Tuesday as they had also been tipped off. I guess those that were caught was in Swift's eyes "collateral damage."

Btw, I read they took them to S.D.

[redgolum]

This is pretty local for me, and it is kind of funny what the reactions are. My plant has a number of Hispanics, and they are mad at the ID thieves. Most of the guys at the plant came in fairly legally (one is a Regan amnesty guy).

[freeangel]

Jeez--I think she ate her parents.

[webster]

Flora Beth De La Garza shouts at immigration police during a raid at a Swift & Company meat processing by Immigration and Custom Enforcement officials in Greeley, Colo., Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006. Federal agents raided meat processing plants in six states Tuesday and arrested an unknown number of persons in an identity theft investigation. Hundreds of workers' family members gathered outside the plants, with some trying to deliver documentation to relatives inside. In Greeley, cars lined the street leading to the plant.

[airborne]

I wonder how many are OTM's.

[VxH]

How does CEO Rovit Reconcile these two statements?:

[Immigration officials last month informed Swift that it would remove unauthorized workers on Dec. 4, but Swift asked a federal judge to prevent agents from conducting the raid, arguing it would cause "substantial and irreparable injury" to its business.

The company estimated a raid would remove up to 40 percent of its 13,000 workers.]

and:

[In a written statement, President and CEO Sam Rovit said the company has never knowingly hired illegal workers and does not condone the practice. ]

So which is it? 

The company knew 40% of its workforce would be removed and yet they have "never knowingly hired illegal workers".

The notice was given on December 4.  The illegal workers were still employed when the company was finally raided on December 12.

I smell Bovine Fecal Material - and it ain't coming from the cows.

Sam Rovit should be wearing an orange jumpsuit.

[aruanan]

"They are taking mothers and fathers, and we're really concerned about the children," said the Rev. Clarence Sandoval of St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church in Logan, Utah. "I'm getting calls from mothers saying they don't know where their husband was taken."

Stop belly-aching, Clarence. You do your job of taking care of the children and let the government do its job of taking care of the illegal workers.

[brooklyn dave]

Does she really look like she needs her mommy?---I'd say that woman is at least in her 20s.