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“Rubashkin” Agriprocessors hires 5W PR to limit damage to its businesss
Agriprocessors hiring replacement workers
The company, he said, was also scrambling to hire replacement employees through advertisements and new applicants. He said he did not know how many replacement workers would be hired. desmoinesregister.com
Raid on Kosher Slaughterhouse Sparks Fears of Meat Shortage
” “There is no channel to provide legal labor for these kinds of operations,” said Lourdes Gouveia, a professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska who studies immigrant labor in the meatpacking industry.” Forward
90 immigration detainees slated for Linn jail
CEDAR RAPIDS - As of Wednesday, the Linn County Jail was scheduled to hold about 90 of the men and women facing immigration-related criminal charges following Monday’s raid on Agriprocessors in Postville, according to the U.S. District Court. GazetteOnline.com
Upd. Rubashkin: No Shortage Of Supply, Due To Raid. Vos iz Neias.com
POSTVILLE, Iowa — A raid by federal immigration officials at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant may have resulted in as many as 700 arrests, immigration officials said Monday.Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered the Agriprocessors Inc. complex in northeast Iowa Monday morning to execute a criminal search warrant for evidence relating to aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers and other crimes, said Tim Counts, a Midwest ICE spokesman.Agents are also executing a civil search warrant for people illegally in the United States, he said.Immigration officials told aides to Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, that they expect 600 to 700 arrests. About 1,000 to 1,050 people work at the plant, according to Iowa Workforce Development, the state’s employment services agency.Chuck Larson, a truck driver for Agriprocessing, was in the plant when the agents arrived. “There has to be 100 of them,” he said of the agents.