Shocker: immigration law enforcement WORKS
Y’know, I’m getting kind of tired of saying “imagine my surprise” whenever yet another ridiculous cornerstone of liberal “wisdom” founders on reality’s rough and rocky shore, but…well, dammit, imagine my surprise:
On December 12, 2006, about 1,300 illegal immigrants working at six meat processing plants owned by Swift & Co. were arrested in the largest immigration enforcement action in U.S. history. Other illegal workers, fearful of future raids, stopped reporting to work. Additionally, in the months prior to the raids, new employee screening by Swift led to the loss of about 400 illegal workers. The plants are located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, and Utah. This report examines the raids and their aftermath.
Among the report’s findings:
- We estimate that 23 percent of Swift’s production workers were illegal immigrants.
- All facilities resumed production on the same day as the raids. All returned to full production within five months. This is an indication that the plants could operate at full capacity without the presence of illegal workers.
- There is good evidence that after the raids the number of native-born workers increased significantly. But Swift would not provide information on how its workforce has changed. Swift also has recruited a large number of refugees who are legal immigrants.
- At the four facilities for which we were able to obtain information, wages and bonuses rose on average 8 percent with the departure of illegal immigrants.
- The Swift plants in Marshalltown, Iowa, and Hyrum, Utah, illustrate the immigration connections that were established during the 1942-1964 era of the braceros and extended through the 1986 amnesty. Many relatives and neighbors of former braceros now work at Swift plants.
But of course, the enforcement of American immigration laws has been declared “un-American,” by someone who surely ought to know un-Americanism when she sees it, having long been an ardent anti-American herself. So I guess we’ll just have to take Granny Rictus’s word for it, and leave the illegal aliens alone to continue being a drag on the American economy as a whole. Whatever pitiful, tatterdemalion shreds of it will be left after Granny and her fellow Commiecrats get done “fixing” it, that is.
(Via The Corner)
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http://cantor.uopine.com/2009/03/19/i-am-a-legal-immigrant-and-i-am-offended/
It doesn't help when Washington doesn't know the differance either.