{"id":8475,"date":"2009-03-16T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8475"},"modified":"2009-03-16T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T15:45:08","slug":"worksite-raids-boost-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8475","title":{"rendered":"Worksite Raids Boost Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CIS.org<\/a>: WASHINGTON (March 16, 2009) – On December 12, 2006, Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel raided six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in the largest immigration enforcement action in U.S. history. The plants are located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, and Utah. A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies examines the raids and their aftermath. It notes the historical context of an industry whose workers have seen a dramatic decline in wages over the past 30 years as well as the raids’ economic effects. The report also discusses both positive and negative reactions in these six communities.<\/p>\n

The report, entitled, “The 2006 Swift Raids: Assessing the Impact of Immigration Enforcement Actions at Six Facilities<\/strong>,” is embargoed<\/strong> until Wednesday, March 18, at 11:59 p.m.<\/strong> when it will be available online at www.cis.org. Advance copies are available to the media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The report is authored by Jerry Kammer<\/a>, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. Before joining CIS, Kammer was a reporter with Copley New Service, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006. In 1990 he received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his reporting on conditions of maquiladora factory workers in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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