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ICE conducts clean-up work at Swift plants
A Swift & Co. spokesman said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday conducted follow-up procedures to the Dec. 12, 2006, raids, arresting three workers at four of the company's processing plants.
"Calling it a raid would be an exaggeration," Sean McHugh, Swift's vice president
of investor relations and communications, told Meatingplace.com. "We believe it was part of a routine follow-up investigation based on the Dec. 12, 2006, raids."
The feds visited a Swift beef processing plant in Cactus, Texas, at 8 a.m. Tuesday and arrested two workers, McHugh said. As a matter of perspective, he pointed out that ICE agents arrested 295 workers on charges of immigration failures there during the Dec. 12 raid. "Two versus 295 is quite a bit different," he said.
McHugh said the nature of the charges in this case weren't yet known. Swift was unaware that ICE planned to revisit the plants, he said.
Other plants
ICE agents also arrived Tuesday morning at a beef processing plant at Swift's headquarters in Greeley, Colo., and arrested no one; at a pork-processing in Marshalltown, Iowa, and arrested no one; and at another of its pork processing plants in Worthington, Minn., where one worker was arrested.
McHugh said the visits did not affect operations at any of the plants.
"And as before, no accusations of wrongdoing or charges have been filed against Swift in connection with this investigation," he noted.
ICE spokesman Richard Rocha could only confirm Tuesday that agents did visit Swift plants "as part of a continuing investigation into the unauthorized workers and identity theft tied to Swift employees."
Rocha told Meatingplace.com that ICE would be putting out more detailed information on Wednesday.
Back in December, ICE raided six Swift plants and arrested nearly 1,300 workers on charges of immigration violations. The company has said the procedure cost the company some $50 million in recovery efforts.
Meatingplace.com
Tom Johnston
July 11, 2007
A Swift & Co. spokesman said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday conducted follow-up procedures to the Dec. 12, 2006, raids, arresting three workers at four of the company's processing plants.
"Calling it a raid would be an exaggeration," Sean McHugh, Swift's vice president
of investor relations and communications, told Meatingplace.com. "We believe it was part of a routine follow-up investigation based on the Dec. 12, 2006, raids."
The feds visited a Swift beef processing plant in Cactus, Texas, at 8 a.m. Tuesday and arrested two workers, McHugh said. As a matter of perspective, he pointed out that ICE agents arrested 295 workers on charges of immigration failures there during the Dec. 12 raid. "Two versus 295 is quite a bit different," he said.
McHugh said the nature of the charges in this case weren't yet known. Swift was unaware that ICE planned to revisit the plants, he said.
Other plants
ICE agents also arrived Tuesday morning at a beef processing plant at Swift's headquarters in Greeley, Colo., and arrested no one; at a pork-processing in Marshalltown, Iowa, and arrested no one; and at another of its pork processing plants in Worthington, Minn., where one worker was arrested.
McHugh said the visits did not affect operations at any of the plants.
"And as before, no accusations of wrongdoing or charges have been filed against Swift in connection with this investigation," he noted.
ICE spokesman Richard Rocha could only confirm Tuesday that agents did visit Swift plants "as part of a continuing investigation into the unauthorized workers and identity theft tied to Swift employees."
Rocha told Meatingplace.com that ICE would be putting out more detailed information on Wednesday.
Back in December, ICE raided six Swift plants and arrested nearly 1,300 workers on charges of immigration violations. The company has said the procedure cost the company some $50 million in recovery efforts.
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