{"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":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\">CIS.org<\/a>: WASHINGTON (March 16, 2009) &ndash; On December 12, 2006, Immigration and Customs  Enforcement personnel raided six meatpacking plants owned by Swift &amp; 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&rsquo; economic  effects. The report also discusses both positive and negative reactions in these  six communities.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled, &ldquo;<strong>The 2006 Swift Raids: Assessing the Impact of  Immigration Enforcement Actions at Six Facilities<\/strong>,&rdquo; is <strong>embargoed<\/strong>  until <strong>Wednesday, March 18, at 11:59 p.m.<\/strong> when it will be available online  at www.cis.org. <strong>Advance copies are available to the media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report is authored by <a title=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/kammer\" href=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/kammer\">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":"<p>From CIS.org: WASHINGTON (March 16, 2009) &ndash; On December 12, 2006, Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel raided six meatpacking plants owned by Swift &amp; Co. in the largest immigration enforcement action in U.S. history. The plants are located in Iowa, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[16754,7155,16752,12627,16751,16753],"class_list":["post-8475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","tag-dramatic-decline","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-immigration-studies","tag-meatpacking-plants","tag-swift-co"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}