Did you see Immigration raids Ohio chicken plant ?

Question

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials raided the Koch Foods Inc. chicken plant in Fairfield, Ohio, and expect to arrest more than 100 employees as part of a criminal operation against illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Tuesday.

"We're anticipating more than 100 (arrests) but the numbers have not been confirmed," said ICE spokesman Greg Palmore. "Simultaneous search warrants were executed at Koch Foods in Cincinnati and at the Koch headquarters in Chicago."

"This was a targeted work site enforcement operation involving criminal search warrants," Palmore said.

Palmore said the raid, which began at 10 a.m. EDT, was the culmination of a two-year investigation of Koch Foods, which produces chicken for export, food service and retail markets.

Calls to Koch Foods, headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois, were unanswered.

Tim Bachman, development services director for the city of Fairfield, said the plant near Cincinnati employs about 500 workers.

The raid on Koch was the latest in a series of immigration raids targeting businesses employing illegal workers across the United States. Many U.S. meat industry workers are immigrants, mainly Hispanics.

In December 2006, hundreds of employees were detained in raids at Swift & Co. meat plants in six states, part of a probe into identity theft involving illegal immigrants.

Deputies in the Butler County, Ohio sheriff's office were assisting federal immigration agents with the Koch raid and may provide detention facilities if required, a sheriff's office spokesman said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070828/ts_nm/immigration_koch_dc_6

But immigration advocates in Cincinnati said the force used during the raids was terrifying the local community, including U.S.-born children of immigrants who are afraid their parents will be taken away.
Here we go again, using the poor anchor babies as a shield for their criminal behavior.

Answer 1

Yes, I saw this and cheered. I must say, I seriously doubt they will slap Koch with enough fines to discourage them from hiring illegals, but let's hope for a big fat fine.

In the meantime, the illegals and their children can all be deported. Families do not need to be broken up. This is how they should be treated.

This whole mess is quite simple.
1. They are criminals, period. The fact that they are poor, that the U.S. is rich, and that they want a better life does not entitle them to sneak in and steal that better life. Lots of people are poor and want a better life. That doesn't entitle you to take what is not yours.

2. The U.S. Gov't has always been complicit in this. They, and all the businesses that hire illegals, want that big fat pool of slave labor. That's why nothing has ever been done about the problem. Not now, and not for the past 30 years.

3. Build the fence. Arm the border. Shoot to kill. It works for banks. It works for borders.

4. Hammer the companies who hire illegals with REAL penalties. Not some measly $1000/head. How about $100,000 per head? You fail to get verified documentation of citizenship on your employee; that's what it costs you.

5. Shut down all access to schools, jobs, health care to anybody here illegally. Can't show proof you are here legally? Sorry - your kid can't enroll in school, you can't use the emergency room, you can't get a job.

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Sounds harsh, eh? Well, coming here and stealing the resources from our own American poor is harsh too.

Answer 2

Thats funny, I live about 3 miles from this plant. I dont see any illegal kids running through the streets in terror. However, I am extremely proud to live in Butler County, where Sherriff Jones has been leading the fight against illegals, and has even gone so far as to sue the Federal Government for the costs of jailing illegals that they refuse to deport as they should. The ICE training was just another step in allowing Butler County to continue to fight the illegal alien problem. Contact your local government, and start encouraging them to get their local Law Enforcement agencies ICE certified too!

Answer 3

Yes, the raids are the thing to do, and if the parents are in this country illegally they need to go home, and parents are accountable to their children for their being here illegally, not the citizens of the USA. The owners of that plant need also need to be fined and jailed if they made the choice to hire illegals to fatten their bottom line at the expense the cost of the social services for the illegals and their children

Answer 4

This could explain why the local chicken processing plant let half their workers go. Since last friday the town is only about have as mexican as it was before these crackdowns.

Answer 5

I just wasted points asking about this same issue.

ICE needs to slap the employers on this one with everything they have.

Answer 6

If any are from Mexico there will be no problem taking their kids with them, they are Mexican citizens too

Answer 7

Great! I'm really starting to like ICE.