'Bad business' deserves backruptcy
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 11/9/2008 4:15:00 AM
An immigration reform activist says she has no sympathy whatsoever for an Iowa meat-packing company that recently filed for bankruptcy protection. The company blames an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in May for its financial woes.
According to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, Agriprocessors owes between $50 million and $100 million to its creditors. The plant in Postville, Iowa, was the site of a May 11 immigration raid in which 389 illegal aliens were arrested. Susan Tully, national field director with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says besides hiring illegal aliens, the plant was cited for numerous other violations, working conditions among them. "...[T]hey had a meth lab running where they were killing and cutting up meat and supposedly didn't know it," she relates. "They had a temporary labor agency after the raid that took a bunch of their people and bused them up there to backfill those jobs until they could get some new employees in there -- and the job agency, on the second day, pulled them all out of there because of the filth and the conditions and the safety [issues]. "These are people who have been doing bad business for a long time," Tully concludes, "and they deserve everything they get." Agriprocessor's biggest lender, the Bank of St. Louis, is seeking to foreclose on the plant and appoint a third party to oversee the company's assets.
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Monday, November 10, 2008
'Bad business' deserves backruptcy
Posted by Capt Jack at 7:19 AM
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"[T]hey had a meth lab running where they were killing and cutting up meat and supposedly didn't know it," she relates."
This allegation comes from an anonymous "Source" in the affidavit and bears no proof had the government thought there was a meth-lab then at the raid there would have been a HAZMAT team together with the agents.
"and the job agency, on the second day, pulled them all out of there because of the filth and the conditions and the safety [issues]."
This labor force that you quote was there for 10 days!!
I don't think your reporting is up to par, if you just copy/paste from other media sites.
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