[CrawDaddyCA]

So much for the Swift big wigs claiming that they 'had no idea' criminal aliens were working at the plants.

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."

[doug from upland]

The leaders of this company need to do some jail time.

[cripplecreek]

Some bigwigs need to see the inside of a prison for several years.

[Graybeard58]

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.

That's rich isn't it?

Why in the world would ICE "tip off Swift" to begin with?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Colossal arrogance. Every Swift executive who knew about this should face criminal charges.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Interesting word in the headline, 'obtrusive.' Look it up in an old dictionary. A synonym is 'impertinent.'

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns. NRA KMA Merry Christmas

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

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.

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

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."

Oh how I would love to preside over this case.

[McGavin999]

Great, now the people who had their identities stolen know who to sue (and those pockets are nice and deep).

[gubamyster]

ping

[Regulator]

But they made it clear they were just going to show up and conduct a one-day raid

Yup. That's the way U.S. cops work. No whining, no crying, no obstructing, no nothin'. They just show up with the warrants and down come the doors.

Don't matter if yer a Big, Important cow killing company or just some shmoe having a fight with the wife.

The "Executives" (say it with a reverent tone) at Swift should be kissing the damn ground right now that they weren't part of the handcuff daisy chain that got loaded onto the buses.

They sure as hell should have been.