Posted on 12/16/2006 4:59:20 PM PST by CrawDaddyCA
For nearly two weeks, Swift & Co. officials fought to block an impending immigration raid they knew was coming.
According to newly unsealed federal-court records filed in Amarillo, Texas, on Dec. 4, the company sought an injunction to stop U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from raiding six of its plants across the nation.
On Dec. 7, the company's request was denied. And on Tuesday, the raid went forward.
While waging the sealed court fight, Swift scrutinized its workers' employment documents. Nearly 400 workers nationally "simply disappeared" because of that review, said Don Wiseman, the company's general counsel.
"We never fired anyone," he said. "We didn't have to."
(Excerpt) Read more at test.denverpost.com ...
And check out this little tid bit:
"We asked ICE repeatedly how we could work with them to make this happen as unobtrusively as possible," Wiseman said. "But they made it clear they were just going to show up and conduct a one-day raid. That was just unacceptable to us. We have a business to run, and we knew there was a better way to do this."
The leaders of this company need to do some jail time.
Some bigwigs need to see the inside of a prison for several years.
That's rich isn't it?
Why in the world would ICE "tip off Swift" to begin with?
Interesting word in the headline, 'obtrusive.' Look it up in an old dictionary. A synonym is 'impertinent.'
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Perhaps for the same reason they can't seem to 'find' Elvira?
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Everyone of these employees were checked against fedguv's employee verification system.
Compare the Swift "raid" to the methods used at Smithfield Ham a few weeks ago.
Same situation, handled very differently. All the freepers said that Smithfield was great, and Swift is criminal.
The Swift raid was a dog and pony show by fedguv to try to make you think that they are getting "tuf".
While waging the sealed court fight, Swift scrutinized its workers' employment documents. Nearly 400 workers nationally "simply disappeared"
this sounds to me like it is very very close to obstruction of justice, in that Swifts "scrutiny" alerted 400 illegals that they should disappear.
That is contradicted by the letter from ICE to Swift, giving them permission.
put your agenda wherever it tickles you the way you like it
"At a news conference Wednesday, ICE officials criticized the company for essentially tipping off hundreds, and potentially thousands, of illegal workers to a 10-month identity-theft investigation that resulted in 1,282 arrests nationwide."
there are 400+ illegal aliens who committed ID fraud who would be in jail now, who are simply stealing a new set of fraudulent ID's........and you want to pretend that ICE blesses this? bugger off Bennie, bugger off.
Which freepers are saying that the Swift raid was 'criminal'?
On Dec. 7, the company's request was denied. And on Tuesday, the raid went forward.
While waging the sealed court fight, Swift scrutinized its workers' employment documents. Nearly 400 workers nationally "simply disappeared" because of that review, said Don Wiseman, the company's general counsel.
"We never fired anyone," he said. "We didn't have to."
Oh how I would love to preside over this case.
The goal is to get more employers to voluntarily participate. The Swift raid will cause employers to not want to participate.
Bottom line, fewer illegals will be detected.
Everyone here has praised Smithfield and called Swift criminals. The situation in both places were exactly the same, the only difference was how fedguv handled it. They could have done to Smithfield what they did to Swift.
gotcha!
Well, if they did try to punish anyone at the company, it would turn into the trial of the century. Swift would read every document at ICE into evidence, and the lawyers would rehash every communication between the government and company officials. All you would need is Judge Ito...
Let me also mention that fedguv could have handled Swift like they did Smithfield.
That was the Tyson trial. The jury said not guilty.
The Justice Dept spent 4 years preparing that case and threw everything they had at Tyson. The jury said that if fedguv can't determine who is legal and who is illegal, how can Tyson?
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