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The raid significantly affected the Postville community. The town, with a census population of only 2,273, [19] lost a large percentage of its population due to the arrests. [20] As a result of the difficulties Agriprocessors faced after the raid, the plant stopped slaughtering cattle in October 2008, and filed for bankruptcy on November 5 ...
Worthington, Minnesota, one of six towns affected by the raids. The 2006 Swift raids were a coordinated effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain and deport people who are present illegally. On Tuesday, December 12, 2006, ICE raided six Swift & Company meatpacking plants in the midwestern and southwestern United States ...
Agriprocessors plant, backside. The Agriprocessors plants have often been controversial because of frequent citations for illegal practices such as animal abuse, food safety violations, [7] violations of environmental laws, child labor laws, and the recruitment of illegal immigrants and inducing them to work in often dangerous conditions at illegal wages.
During the first Trump administration, there were at least 63 planned and five exigent ICE arrests at or near a sensitive location, according to ICE data covering the period from Oct. 1, 2017 ...
It also comes less than a year after the government fined another sanitation services provider $1.5 million for employing more than 100 kids — ages 13 to 17 — at 13 meat processing plants in ...
Long before U.S. immigration authorities arrested 680 people at agricultural processing facilities in Mississippi this week, one of the five targeted companies faced allegations of serious labor ...
National Beef also owns and operates a slaughterhouse and beef packing plant in Liberal with a capacity of processing 6,000 cattle per day [9] and employing about 3,500 people. That number of employees comprises about one-third of the total employed work force in Seward County where Liberal is located. [10]
Following the raid, and subsequent investigation, Koch Foods paid a fine on February 12, 2010 of $536,046 for violating federal immigration law. According to a 2010 ICE press release, the company cooperated and began using E-Verify, an Internet-based system that allows an employer to verify a person's work eligibility. [10] [11] [12]