Swift & Company

...on immigration raids Sister Christine Feagan of St. Mary's Catholic Church talks about the effects of the 2006 immigration raid at the Swift & Co. meatpacker, Thursday, April 16, 2009, in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie...

In this article: Marshalltown, Iowa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Iowa, Postville, and Janet Napolitano

...five-month prison sentences. A similar drop in his business occurred in late 2006, Hernandez said, when agents raided the Swift & Co. meat plant in Marshalltown, Iowa, and detained hundreds of illegal workers. "Customers stopped appearing,"...

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...farms. Mike Graves, a two-decade veteran of the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Marshalltown, Iowa, said he was handcuffed and held for eight hours in December 2006 when ICE agents raided Swift plants throughout the heartland. "My...

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...business and the world's second-largest meat processing company. The company's facilities raided Tuesday were in Greeley, about 45 miles north of Denver; Grand Island, Neb. ; Cactus, Texas; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington,...

In this article: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Swift & Co., Julie L. Myers, Denver, Grand Island, Neb., Washington, and U.S.

...Iowa; and Worthington, Minnesota. Production was expected to be below normal in the short term, but the company did not provide further details and did not return a call for comment. At Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat...

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