Puerto Rican Workers to Fill the Void?

NPR did another nice story year following up on raids about a year ago when immigration agents arrested more than 1,200 illegal workers at Swift meat-packing plants in six states. Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter said last summer that the day after the raids, Americans were lined up to get their $18-an-hour jobs back. In reality, the meat-packing plants pay an average of $11-12 — and no one is lining up to work there. Many plants, even those that were not raided, must still recruit heavily for legal workers.   Where are they looking?  Puerto Rico, an island filled with U.S. citizens.

KJ