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Smithfield recuperating from latest ICE raid
By Tom Johnston on 8/23/2007 for Meatingplace.com
Smithfield Packing Co. is determining whether to schedule work Saturday at its Tar Heel, N.C., hog-processing plant following a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday.
"We had to shift some people around and prioritize our work," Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman told Meatingplace.com. "It slowed us down a little bit, but it's nothing we won't make up before the week's out."
At about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, ICE agents arrested eight workers at the Tar Heel plant on suspicion of identity theft, ICE spokesman Richard Rocha told Meatingplace.com. Another 20 people, the majority of whom were either current or former Smithfield workers, were arrested under similar suspicion at their homes.
Of the 28 detainees, 13 were women and 15 were men. Twenty-five of the detainees are Mexican, two are Guatemalan and one is Honduran. The women are being detained in a jail in Mecklenburg County, while the men are being held in a prison in Alamance County, according to Rocha. None has been charged.
"At this point they will be presented for federal criminal prosecution," Rocha said, declining to say whether they are suspected of stealing identities to obtain employment at the Tar Heel facility.
Smithfield notified
Pittman said ICE notified the company "a few days" before the raid and informed it of the workers the agency planned to arrest. ICE agents were waiting for those workers when they arrived to work, and arrested them shortly thereafter.
"They had the names of the people they wanted," Pittman said. "When [the workers] came in, we directed them to the office where ICE agents were waiting. We found out whom [ICE agents] wanted a few days before they came in, but we're not allowed to announce it. We couldn't even tell the rest of our staff here."
Pittman noted the ICE visit didn't cause much of a stir on the premises. "Most of our folks didn't even know it happened until they saw it in media reports," he said.
The latest raid brings the total number of ICE arrests at the Tar Heel plant this year to 29. The agency arrested 21 workers in January on immigration violations
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Smithfield recuperating from latest ICE raid
By Tom Johnston on 8/23/2007 for Meatingplace.com
Smithfield Packing Co. is determining whether to schedule work Saturday at its Tar Heel, N.C., hog-processing plant following a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday.
"We had to shift some people around and prioritize our work," Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman told Meatingplace.com. "It slowed us down a little bit, but it's nothing we won't make up before the week's out."
At about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, ICE agents arrested eight workers at the Tar Heel plant on suspicion of identity theft, ICE spokesman Richard Rocha told Meatingplace.com. Another 20 people, the majority of whom were either current or former Smithfield workers, were arrested under similar suspicion at their homes.
Of the 28 detainees, 13 were women and 15 were men. Twenty-five of the detainees are Mexican, two are Guatemalan and one is Honduran. The women are being detained in a jail in Mecklenburg County, while the men are being held in a prison in Alamance County, according to Rocha. None has been charged.
"At this point they will be presented for federal criminal prosecution," Rocha said, declining to say whether they are suspected of stealing identities to obtain employment at the Tar Heel facility.
Smithfield notified
Pittman said ICE notified the company "a few days" before the raid and informed it of the workers the agency planned to arrest. ICE agents were waiting for those workers when they arrived to work, and arrested them shortly thereafter.
"They had the names of the people they wanted," Pittman said. "When [the workers] came in, we directed them to the office where ICE agents were waiting. We found out whom [ICE agents] wanted a few days before they came in, but we're not allowed to announce it. We couldn't even tell the rest of our staff here."
Pittman noted the ICE visit didn't cause much of a stir on the premises. "Most of our folks didn't even know it happened until they saw it in media reports," he said.
The latest raid brings the total number of ICE arrests at the Tar Heel plant this year to 29. The agency arrested 21 workers in January on immigration violations