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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on September 14, 2009, 03:55:15 PM

Title: Immigration raids yield jobs for legal workers
Post by: bijou on September 14, 2009, 03:55:15 PM
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When federal agents descended on six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in December 2006, they rounded up nearly 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants that made up about 10% of the labor force at the plants.
But the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents did not cripple the company or the plants. In fact, they were back up and running at full staff within months by replacing those removed with a significant number of native-born Americans, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

That was the most extreme example of what has become an increasingly common result of the raids: "They were very beneficial to American workers," according to Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain. ...
link (http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2009-09-13-plants_N.htm)

Captain Obvious strikes again.
Title: Re: Immigration raids yield jobs for legal workers
Post by: Crazy Horse on September 14, 2009, 06:42:01 PM
No shit..................who would have thunk it :thatsright:
Title: Re: Immigration raids yield jobs for legal workers
Post by: rich_t on September 14, 2009, 06:43:34 PM
Doing the jobs that American's won't do eh?