About 220 employees detained during immigration raids in Minnesota and five other states last month are now facing charges of identity theft or other criminal counts.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Swift and Company plants in Worthington, Minnesota, and plants in Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Iowa and Texas.
A total of nearly 1,300 employees were detained December 12th.
Swift CEO Sam Rovit says neither the company, nor any current or former managers, will face charges, but ICE spokesman Tim Counts says the investigation is still under way.
Swift said Thursday that the raids could cost the company up to 30 million dollars during its current fiscal year.
Are these jobs US citizens will not do? I think not... maybe picking strwberries or such, but not production line work in a packing house for wages that are competitive.
