Immigration raids may affect meat prices

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/15/06 | Roxana Hegeman - ap

[rocksblues]

JCBTS

[tiger-one]

meat is high already...so just switch to fish

[dennisw]

Those arrested are serious identity thieves. And guess whose IDs they are stealing? Mostly Hispanics, not Anglos. There are plenty of ripped off, pissed off Hispanics. They need to speak out and be interviewed

A Half Indian illegal alien is not going to try pass himself off as John Smith

[Gaffer]

I quit buying ANYTHING from TYSON a long time ago...

[Freedom4US]

This is anecdotal, but about 1989 I had an Army room-mate from Arkansas. We got talking about politics for some reason, and he started talking about this Clinton guy, said he was crooked as all hell, and that he would be president one day, and watch out, etc. I've never forgotten that.

[Arizona Carolyn]

If a person lives in Utah and has a fishing license there is no limit on Stripers at Lake Powell... could feed a large family pretty inexpensively and get healthy exercise doing it.

[crazyhorse691]

When hordes of police and immigration officials stormed meatpacking plants in six states this week, the illegal workers arrested may not have been the only victims.

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I just can't seem to figure out what the bias is in this AP piece....LOL..sorry, I just couldn't keep a straight face any longer

[dangus]

From closing down six sausage plants for one day?

[cinives]

Same. It's much healthier too.

[Lurker]

You are going to end up paying higher wages," Mintert said.

Wow. Bona fide lawful labor will get higher wages.

And my meat may cost a couple more pennies a pound.

ITEOTWAWKI.

These business owners are scum. It's time for some RICO prosecutions. Indict 'em, try 'em, convict 'em, incarcerate 'em and fine 'em till they're dead broke and their children go hungry.

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[SMM48]

This is BS, it is just a pretext to raise prices.

and/or to get the American public to rise up and demand a "guest worker program with a path to citizenship" so we can have cheap labor to produce cheap meat.

[fhlh]

Immigration raids may affect meat prices

Oh Well... Here's a AP headline you will NEVER read.

Minimum Wage increase may affect meat prices

[Caipirabob]

Immigration raids may affect meat prices

Will it have a positive impact on healthcare prices and hospital expenses? So I pay $2.00 for a big mac...

[gcruse]

Pay more for meat, less for emergency medical services. It works out.

[Beagle8U]

"meat is high already...so just switch to fish"

And fish is cheap?

[gcruse]

"This is BS, it is just a pretext to raise prices."

Don't need a pretext. They can raise prices anytime they want. It's a free market. Their competitors would love it.

[trtwox]

Increase meat prices???


It will all work out in the free market. More people will eat less meat and prices will come down due to more supply and less demand.

[Retired Chemist]

I have a relative who worked at Swift years ago as a meat cutter. He made excellent money.

[Balding_Eagle]

Exactly.

[ME-262]

Dressed in orange those beef packers look like construction zone barrels. My beef is that now we're giving them free clothes.