More on the Immigration Raids

TPM Muckraker is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is still holding and processing several hundred workers grabbed in early-morning raids Tuesday — and finding some surprises. Agents have identified a number of legal workers they swept up in the raids, dubbed “Operation Wagon Train,” and held for days before releasing them. The United Food and Commercial Workers union has rented vans to pick up newly-released workers from government holding facilities and bring them back home.  Stay tuned to the latest by clicking here.

Business Week reports that, when hordes of police and immigration officials stormed meatpacking plants in six states this week, the illegal workers arrested may not have been the only victims. Consumers and the industry itself may be feeling the repercussions in a shortage of meatpackers, higher wage costs and, ultimately, higher prices for the beef that lands on America’s tables at home and in restaurants.  Click here for the story.

KJ