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More than a week after a judge blocks parts of Arizona's immigration law, the executive director of a Georgia Latino group said if that law is passed in the peach state, the poultry industry would feel the fallout. Jerry Gonzalez with the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials said anywhere between 40 and 50 percent of the workforce in the poultry industry is illegal. "If we were to remove 40 to 50 percent of the workforce, would our economy suffer," Gonzalez asked during WDUN's The Local Hour Friday morning. "The answer to that is yes." He said lawmakers need to...

Little Rock (AP) - Governor Mike Huckabee is speaking out against federal agents who raided an Arkadelphia Chicken plant. Huckabee said it appears the arrests of 119 workers at the plant were terribly planned and that federal agents gave little thought to the consequences for children of those arrested. Families and churches in the Arkadelphia area have been caring for about 30 children left behind after the July 26 raid. Huckabee has joined Hispanic civil rights leaders to ensure the well-being of the children. Immigration officials said they raided the plant after auditing the company's records. The raid followed the...

If you squint east into the morning Sun you see the glinting shapes moving slowly towards you along Main Street in Westborough. Many shapes, blurred by distance and the Sun’s brilliance. If you are patient and keep squinting along Main Street, the shapes finally are resolved as the small army of illegals that work in town. A company of pedestrians carrying cheap mesh bags, they are preceded by a battalion of battered bicycles, coming out of the Sun, starting another day at work. Most that cannot afford a $ 1,000 fake drivers’ licenses do not drive, the better to avoid...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided Swift & Co. meat processing plants in six states and arrested scores of suspected illegal immigrants in an identity theft investigation that lasted almost a year. ICE is an investigative unit of the Department of Homeland Security. The alleged scheme involved the theft and/or purchase of the identities and Social Security numbers of several hundred U.S. citizens and legal residents. The six plants that were raided are located in Greeley, CO; Grand Island, NE; Cactus, TX; Hyrum, UT; Marshalltown, IA; and Worthington, MN. Swift participates in Basic Pilot, a U.S. Citizenship & Immigration...

With pot and porn outstripping corn, America's black economy is flying high Illegal migrants provide the muscle for US black market Duncan Campbell in Los AngelesFriday May 2, 2003The Guardian Marijuana, pornography and illegal labour have created a hidden market in the United States which now accounts for as much as 10% of the American economy, according to a study. As a cash crop, marijuana is believed to have outstripped maize, and hardcore porn revenue is equal to Hollywood's domestic box office takings. Despite laws that punish marijuana cultivation more strictly than murder in some states, Americans spend more on...