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Tyson Probe Shows Scope of migrant Hiring Scams
Chicago Tribune
| Dec. 25, 2001
| Nancy Cleeland and Stuart Silverstein
Posted on 12/25/2001 5:39:49 AM PST by tom paine 2
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The worker-smuggling indictment handed down last week against the nation's largest meat processor was a dramatic advance for federal authorities, who have worked since the late 1990s to crack down on employers that collaborate in schemes to recruit illegal immigrants.
At the same time, the investigation of Tyson Foods Inc., which involved wiretaps, paid informants and 2 1/2 years of undercover work, illustrates the massive effort and resources required to probe employer culpability in the widely acknowledged practice of hiring undocumented workers.
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To: tom paine 2
Tyson is also being investigated for child exploitation.
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posted on
12/25/2001 5:47:14 AM PST
by
LarryLied
To: tom paine 2
Anybody note the connection between Bill Clinton, lax immigration enforcement, Tyson and the flood of illegals during the past nine years? Coincidence? The Tyson people were big supporters of the Clintons.
To: tom paine 2
In the early days, Tyson used to smuggle drugs stuffed into frozen chickens. He sure didn't make all that money selling low-quality, uninspected chickens in the supermarket. Maybe someone should run CAT scans on these migrants.
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posted on
12/25/2001 6:19:34 AM PST
by
Cicero
To: tom paine 2
Tyson's arky operations should have been indicted for drug smuggling years and years ago ...
Reportedly the rivers in Arkansas are an ugly broth filled with chicken guts and human body parts.
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posted on
12/25/2001 6:29:07 AM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: tom paine 2
Tyson managers seemed to prefer illegal workers because they were easier to work with than legal U.S. residents. Yes, they're much easier to work with, for one they don't ask for health insurance benefits like most Americans like to have, their content to use free medical clinics and country hospitals for health care paid by taxpayers. They're afraid to be deported so they'll put up with any kind of abuse, $4 an hour sounds good when they're recruited in Mexico where they're lucky to make $3 a day, $4 an hour won't support a family unless it comes with HUD housing and food stamps.
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posted on
12/25/2001 6:36:17 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
Vernon Jordan carried the Sara Lee bucket to the Clintons as well. I wonder if they may have anything on other big meat producers. As one does, so do they all. Sara Lee is more diversified, but they are filling up their meat plants with Mexicans faster than you can imagine. They even tried to get special housing for them using obsolete school buildings in the area. The community nixed it.
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posted on
12/25/2001 6:40:00 AM PST
by
blackdog
To: FITZ
Also these were automatic votes for Democrats.I will bet 60% of the illegals had voter registrations and voted.The influx of illegal aliens under Clinton/Gore more than tripled in their 8 yaers in the WhiteHouse.
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posted on
12/25/2001 6:40:37 AM PST
by
gunnedah
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
The entire operation was apparently covert. That is, it was begun and carried out under the Clintoon administration, but the results were wisely held from view while subject to being covered up.
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posted on
12/25/2001 6:43:19 AM PST
by
bert
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
"Anybody note the connection between Bill Clinton, lax immigration enforcement, Tyson and the flood of illegals during the past nine years? Coincidence? The Tyson people were big supporters of the Clintons."
And Tyson got their moneys worth too !! Illegal hiring scams, rivers flowing with contaminated chicken blood and so on.
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
Anybody note the connection between Bill Clinton, lax immigration enforcement, Tyson and the flood of illegals during the past nine years? Coincidence? The Tyson people were big supporters of the Clintons. MURRY MOM would claim this story is a sham but the BUSH/ENRON connection is all a conspiracy between Bush and Big Oil!! Hey where has Murry Mom been lately. She needs to come out and defend the Clintons on this one.
To: blackdog
Most of the Southwest is now a defacto part of Mexico. It is just a matter of time until the seperatist movement really gets going. Our own little Kosovo brought to us by politicians of both parties. In Ca. it is allready obvious that the state govt. backs the illegals. They continue to pay lip service to blacks but it is obvious that they are going with the demographics which our own leaders set up. National suicide.
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posted on
12/25/2001 6:57:16 AM PST
by
willyone
To: Cicero
I believe a Tyson Exec was involved in hills futures trading escapade. The futures market has long been known as one of the main laundering tools for the drug trade money. I wonder if the politicans will ever get around to looking into that. Considering where their campaign money comes from I doubt it.
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posted on
12/25/2001 7:00:46 AM PST
by
steve50
To: tom paine 2
Mike Tyson gives me less indigestion then Tyson Foods.
After X42 gave Tyson free reign to pollute Arkansas with chicken feces waste(after all the Demonrats love the enviroment, don't they?), it wasn't such a stretch to let them pollute America with the illegal immigration trash.
Tyson Foods was the major bankroller of Clinton's drive to the presidency.
And that ain't chicken s--t!
To: willyone
Most of the Southwest is now a defacto part of Mexico. It's interesting in the SW you can discriminate against blacks and it's perfectly legal. If they don't speak Spanish fluently or you don't think they would, you don't have to hire them. People from Mexico have dibs on most jobs.
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posted on
12/25/2001 7:10:26 AM PST
by
FITZ
To: tom paine 2
Gee, another FOB caught in corruption. Who'd a thunk it?
The most ethical administration in history.....by Satan's standards.
To: tom paine 2
"Many pork producers are virtually unable to hire and maintain an adequate labor force to operate at full capacity," The guy forgot to add, "at the low wages we are willing to pay."
If they raised the pay high enough, they would find workers, laws of economics. And if the laws were enforced, they would not have to worry about that putting them at a competitive disadvantage.
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posted on
12/25/2001 7:19:36 AM PST
by
Ahban
To: NC Conservative
Hey where has Murry Mom been lately.The Heaven's Gate cult realized they forgot her, a la MacCauley Culkin, and came back for her.
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
Anybody note the connection between Bill Clinton, lax immigration enforcement, Tyson and the flood of illegals during the past nine years? Coincidence? The Tyson people were big supporters of the Clintons. You are wrong. Tyson did not support Bill Clinton; they OWNED Bill Clinton.
To: Ahban
Before Tysons, we didn't have so much problem with Salmonella and dangerous E. coli in the chicken. It's not a very safe meat supply we have now. Illegal workers aren't the only thing they're pulling. Clinton sure did love that bribe money.
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posted on
12/25/2001 7:37:34 AM PST
by
FITZ
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