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Old 02-09-2007, 10:33 AM
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Illegal immigration raid leaves town empty

Source: WP: Immigration raid empties Texas town - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

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City fueled by illegal meatpackers falls apart after hundreds arrested

On Dec. 12, hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clad in riot gear and armed with assault rifles descended on the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in a coordinated raid of six of the company's facilities nationwide. The operation was the government's largest single work-site enforcement operation ever. The plant in little Cactus -- a town better known in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, and in the department of Quiché, Guatemala, where workers came from, than in Texas -- was the largest one raided. Almost a quarter of the 1,282 suspected illegal immigrants arrested in the raids were removed from the Cactus plant.

That an obscure town 600 miles north of the border and in the middle of High Plains country once owned by Anglo ranchers and farmers was a haven for illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants was no surprise to anyone here. The draw to Cactus has existed since American Beef Packers opened the meat-processing plant in 1974. Swift's predecessor company bought the plant in 1975, and it became known as Swift & Co.'s Cactus Beef Plant in 2002.
Now we know why they're afraid to crack down on the illegals here in dodge.
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Old 02-09-2007, 10:43 AM
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It is a racket isn't it? Hell that reads like the bootleggers life during prohibition.
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Old 02-09-2007, 11:09 AM
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Swift wouldn't play the "game" properly!! Isn't that being "prejudiced"???
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