Posted on: February 5th, 2007
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“Over the past seven months, businesses, including Smithfield Foods, have quietly cooperated with the Department of Homeland Security in a little-known program to identify and root out illegal immigrants working in the United States.
The department has told companies such as Smithfield, which rely heavily on immigrant labor, that it would spare them from federal raids if they would voluntarily hand over their workers documents to be scanned for fraudulent information.”
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