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GeorgiaMom
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:15 am |
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300 Illegal Immigrants rounded up
| Quote: | Feds Hold 300 Suspected Illegal Immigrants After Raid on South Carolina Chicken PlantTuesday, October 07, 2008
AP/Greenville News
Oct. 7, 2008: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents execute a search warrant at the House of Raeford's Columbia Farms chicken processing plant.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Federal agents detained more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants Tuesday in a raid at a chicken processing plant that has been under investigation for months.
The raid took place during a shift change, when police and federal agents spread through the House of Raeford's Columbia Farms plant and ordered all workers to show identification, according to officials and witnesses.
Maria Juan, 22, was one of about 50 relatives and friends of workers who huddled at the edge of the plant after the raid, some weeping and others talking frantically on cell phones. She was seeking information about her 68-year-old grandmother, a legal immigrant from Guatemala who went to work without identification papers but was later released.
"Families are going to be broken apart," Juan said. "There will be kids and babies left behind. Why are they doing this? Why? They didn't do anything. They only wanted to work."
Immigration officials kept the workers inside the plant and spent most of the morning trying to interview them and figure out how many are in the U.S. illegally, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin McDonald said. |
Great Job! 300 down and only about a million to go.
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| dugo
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:45 am |
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Re: 300 Illegal Immigrants rounded up
| Quote: | | The raid took place during a shift change, when police and federal agents spread through the House of Raeford's Columbia Farms plant and ordered all workers to show identification, according to officials and witnesses. |
AUSWEISS! SCHNELL SCHNELL.. DEINE PAPIERE!!! ABSOFORT!!
Sounds rather un-American to me... Since when do you have mandatory identification at the workplace?
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| annie13
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:28 pm |
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Re: 300 Illegal Immigrants rounded up
| dugo wrote: | | Quote: | | The raid took place during a shift change, when police and federal agents spread through the House of Raeford's Columbia Farms plant and ordered all workers to show identification, according to officials and witnesses. |
AUSWEISS! SCHNELL SCHNELL.. DEINE PAPIERE!!! ABSOFORT!!
Sounds rather un-American to me... Since when do you have mandatory identification at the workplace? |
You do need to prove that you are able (legal) to work in the US. Asking for I.D. was just one way to do it. When you are employed, you must show proof of your SS Card and a picture ID.
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| dugo
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:41 pm |
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Re: 300 Illegal Immigrants rounded up
| annie13 wrote: | | You do need to prove that you are able (legal) to work in the US. Asking for I.D. was just one way to do it. When you are employed, you must show proof of your SS Card and a picture ID. |
Yeah, I get that, but since when (as in since which year) can you be carded by the FEDs at work? Any idea?
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| annie13
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:56 pm |
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Re: 300 Illegal Immigrants rounded up
| dugo wrote: |
Yeah, I get that, but since when (as in since which year) can you be carded by the FEDs at work? Any idea? |
Immigration reform and control act....1986 the form to be completed is
I-9
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| dugo
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:46 pm |
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thx an..
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| GeorgiaMom
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Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:56 pm |
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Dugo, our company complies with E-verify http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=4ee4be0cbcf90110VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD .
One of the biggest problems we have with the hispanics is that their name on the application doesn't match the order thats on their SS card. They seem to write it differently each time they turn something in. First, Middle, Last; Middle, First, Last; Last, First, Middle etc...
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| Schmerty
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Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:05 pm |
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Well I hope the Europeans, Russians, Croatians ,Germans & Australians will be promptly investigated & given the same treatment. America is such a fair ,law abiding country! 
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| olympic
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Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:21 pm |
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who will replace these workers now, and will they be paid according to the cost of living, or the bare minimum the illegals were getting?
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