Posted on 12/15/2006 1:39:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Five suspects arrested in the ICE raid on the Swift & Company beef plant on Tuesday are escorted from District Court in Greeley, Colo., on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, after a first appearance on forgery and criminal impersonation charges. From right to left are Maria Soto, Vanessa Caraveo, Jennifer Rosa, Jose Hector Miramontes, and Otilio Torres Rivera. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
What, no hair nets?
The revolving door of immigration enforcement is an American institution!
Fine. If we have been paying artificially low prices for products then we need to bite the bullet and let the market adjust those prices to where they actually belong so American workers have a chance.
wah
I buy mine direct from the farmer and suggest that those who can, do the same.
Immigration raids may affect meat prices
why?
Let's see, higher wages for American workers, illegals deported, offset by higher beef prices. I'll take that.
Sounds like it's time to start buying beef off the Internet. Cyber Beef, and have it stocked full of SOY.
If this is Wichita. Kansas Dr. Tiller is a good killer, he could be applying for a job for Swift. Make a good story.
This is BS, it is just a pretext to raise prices.
OH Plllleeeeaaasssseeeee
illegal workers = victims ???
Only doing the work American won"t do? Pffffttttt
Yep, if all they will pay are substandadrd wages = so a few can relly line their pockets.
No media bias here folks, move along.
Fine. Things are supposed to be priced based on the costs of production, along with competitive influences. To say that it's acceptable to use criminal labor, where the workers wages are kept low because they cannot speak up due to their circumstances, is insane.
But during the Clinton years, the media compartmentalized individual allegations and questioned the motives of investigators who dared burden a President by forcing him to deal with hyped scandals.
Clinton’s Tyson ties were known before he reached the White House. "Tyson Foods has provided free airplane rides for the governor and his wife, and its executives have helped him with thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and industry fund-raising efforts that fueled Clinton’s reelection campaigns and his race for President," the Washington Post’s David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf chronicled in a March 22, 1992 front-page article. They quoted company chief Don Tyson: "You’ve got to support the governor."
Two years later, the networks learned that a Tyson lawyer, James Blair, had helped Hillary Clinton scoop up nearly $100,000 in profits trading cattle futures during her husband’s first year as governor. Sounded fishy, but the networks weren’t very excited.
Later in 1994, Clinton’s Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy was discovered to have received $35,000 in favors from Tyson. When Espy resigned on October 3, 1994, ABC’s Peter Jennings mourned the departure of a "young man who seemed to represent so much promise." That was also the end of the story, at least as far as the three broadcast networks were concerned. While Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz convicted several lobbyists and extracted a $6 million guilty plea from Tyson, the networks aired only two stories from the time Espy left office until he was indicted 35 months later.
Boy, I'm glad I shot that deer. The meat industry has been making a killing lately with the disease scares and their other BS excuses. Now, We know that since the 60's, they've been cutting corners by hiring illegals. Don't need these greedy bastards, I have friends with cattle.
What's next? "Prostitution Raids Increase Price of Sex"?
I'll pay the extra quarter to replace illegals with Americans paid proper wages.
I agree. I also suspect it wouldn't be that significant a rise. So many things affect meat prices,labor is just one of the components.
ping
Don Tyson was Clinton's Cocaine connection... and if the stories are true used their trucks to spread the Mena Cocaine around the country. I do not under any circumstances buy Tyson Chicken.
I we're gonna put illegal workers out of work, we need to also put them out of the country. Elsewise, they hang around with no work and cause problems and cost us more elsewhere.
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