{"id":8522,"date":"2009-03-19T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T16:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2009-03-19T08:05:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T16:05:47","slug":"new-report-finds-wage-and-employment-growth-for-legal-workers-after-swift-plant-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8522","title":{"rendered":"New report finds wage and employment growth for legal workers after Swift plant raids"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CIS.org<\/a>: WASHINGTON (March 19, 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><\/a>,” is authored by Jerry Kammer<\/strong><\/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

The report is available online at http:\/\/cis.org\/2006SwiftRaids. Some of the findings include:<\/p>\n

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