800 illegals in Greeley plant, not just 300

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12-13-2006, 08:13 PM
BetsyRoss

800 illegals in Greeley plant, not just 300

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Children In Limbo After Immigration Raids
Almost 3,000 Suspected Illegal Immigrants Arrested

POSTED: 1:36 pm PST December 13, 2006
UPDATED: 2:10 pm PST December 13, 2006

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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- The fate of children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents live in the country illegally is uncertain following a six-state sweep Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

ICE officials rounded up and arrested almost 3,000 suspected illegal immigrants at six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Colorado, Nebreaska, Texas, Utah, Iowa and Minnesota on Tuesday.

A union spokesman said Wednesday that as many as 250 workers were detained in Nebraska, TV station KETV reported.

The threat of deportation could leave the city of Grand Island caring for scores of children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents now face possible deportation.

Barr Middle School in Grand Island became a shelter for children on Tuesday. Teachers and other school officials spent the day finding safe places for children of parents in federal custody.

Grand Island Schools Superintendent Steve Joel said the mothers taken into custody were released to come home and take care of their children, but that some of those children might not see their fathers for a long time.

"By 3:30, kids were pretty traumatized," Joel said. "They didn't know what they're facing when they go home."

Joel said his staff started working on what to do with the children as soon as he got the word at about 8 a.m. Tuesday.

"We had a lot of relatives come forward to take these kids. We had teachers who took children to homes they could identify with," Joel said.

Joel said some teachers even offered to take home a displaced child. In the end they didn't have to, but Joel estimated that 1,100 children were impacted by the DHS action in Grand Island.

Joel said he realizes that there is a lot of fear in the immigrant community about what might happen if parents send their children to school on Wednesday. He said he wants those parents to trust him.

"School is a safe house. We're going to protect our kids and our families," he said.

Joel said immigrant parents got a call in Spanish from the district on Tuesday night assuring them that teachers wouldn't turn their children over to federal agents.

Colorado County Hit Hard

Weld County Social Services in Colorado prepared for an expected influx of cases after hundreds of workers at the Swift plant in Greely were arrested.

At least 800 workers at the Greeley plant were identified as illegal immigrants; 300 of them will be deported within the week, said Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck.

Swift had been tipped to the planned raid earlier, Denver TV station KMGH reported. But the raid caught Weld County Social Services by surprise. The agency is responsible for the welfare of families and children in the county and it expected many families would be affected by the loss of income.

"Our wish would have been they would have let us know beforehand," said Judy Griego, director of Weld County Social Services, speaking to the Greeley Tribune. "We have kind of collapsed around this situation internally. Frankly, we don't know how many kids are involved in this now. It's kind of guesswork."

The top priority, Griego told the newspaper, is to find relatives or friends of detained parents. They would be first-choice caretakers, while the county would provide "wraparound services" such as emergency food or financial support.

All foster-care facilities in Weld and Larimer counties were put on alert by Weld County commissioners.

Weld County merchants were expected to feel the economic blow from the raid as well.

"Quite honestly, you're looking at two weeks before Christmas, and there is buying power leaving the economy," said Sarah Macquiddy, president of the Greeley Chamber of Commerce. "I'm sure that Swift will be able to survive this. But if they don't, it's really sad. The issue being made out of the illegal aliens is minuscule compared to the impact that Swift has on our economy."

Buck said that the raid adversely affects many families that are were working to put their children through school in Colorado, but there are other victims involved.

"It is a difficult day in Greeley. But it's also been a difficult day around the country as people's identities have been stolen and they've had to go and clean up their credit. And they've suffered great harm also," Buck said.
12-13-2006, 08:23 PM
Cindy

How in the world can illegal's in our land create a legal citizen? As Spock would say..."it isn't logical." Send them packing with the parents.
12-13-2006, 08:30 PM
Lone_Patriot

i s there currently any legislation in the works that would end this 14 th amendment debacle?
12-13-2006, 08:37 PM
Cindy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lone_Patriot

i s there currently any legislation in the works that would end this 14 th amendment debacle?

I hope so. We can't afford the nightmare of all those illegal anchors claiming to be American's.
12-13-2006, 08:49 PM
Sailor

The answer to the problem of the children of illegals picked up for deportation is really simple. Get the children connected with their parents and send them all back to Mexico.l Now is that too hard for those knucklehead whiners to understand?
12-13-2006, 09:14 PM
Crusader01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor

The answer to the problem of the children of illegals picked up for deportation is really simple. Get the children connected with their parents and send them all back to Mexico.l Now is that too hard for those knucklehead whiners to understand?

Yes I agree, but I would add to that have the Army Corp of Engineers Construct a wall or hire Americans to build it, arm it with either National Guard, or a Citizens Militia, and then start prosecutions of those who are responsible for this invasion of criminals including employers, private citizens and politicians behind it. And go after Mexico for the billions it has costed us taxpayers, and the other countries responsible also.
12-13-2006, 09:40 PM
Richard

Sailor, that is standard international practice butyou know us Americans we are soft and gulible.
12-13-2006, 10:24 PM
Newmexican

This statement crystallizes the Chamber of Commerce attitude. She doesn't care about what happens to the victims of these people, but she is concerned with how much MONEY the illegals won't spend. I don't like people that I think are prostituting my country for money.

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"Quite honestly, you're looking at two weeks before Christmas, and there is buying power leaving the economy," said Sarah Macquiddy, president of the Greeley Chamber of Commerce. "I'm sure that Swift will be able to survive this. But if they don't, it's really sad. The issue being made out of the illegal aliens is minuscule compared to the impact that Swift has on our economy."
12-13-2006, 10:56 PM
mapwife

Published: 12.13.2006

Swift estimated raids could affect 40 percent of work force

Swift estimated raids could affect 40 percent of work force DENVER -- Swift & Co. had estimated that up to 40 percent of its 13,000 workers could be removed in immigration raids, costing the company up to $100 million, according to court documents.

After a closed hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson in Amarillo, Texas, rejected the Greeley, Colo.-based company's request to stop the raids, saying that an injunction blocking the raids was contrary to the public interest.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Tuesday raided facilities in Greeley; Grand Island, Neb.; Cactus, Texas; Hyrum, Utah; Marshalltown, Iowa; and Worthington, Minn., representing all of Swift's domestic beef processing capacity and 77 percent of its pork processing capacity.

The company touts itself as the world's second-largest meat processor with sales of about $9 billion.

Agents reviewed documents at Swift's other two plants and found no significant numbers of suspected illegal immigrants and did not propose raids, according to court documents.

It wasn't immediately clear how many workers were detained following the raids but more information was expected to be released by federal officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on Wednesday.

Swift filed its request Nov. 28 after ICE informed it of a planned "mass removal" of unauthorized workers at the six plants. Swift argued that its agreements with ICE as part its participation in the Basic Pilot program, which permits employers to check a federal database to see whether Social Security numbers are valid, prevented ICE from disrupting business by conducting workplace raids.

ICE argued that the agreements did not prevent enforcement action and that "Swift had no right to continue to utilize thousands of illegal workers in violation of the immigration laws."

Swift has used the Basic Pilot program since 1997, but company officials have for years raised concerns about the ability to detect when two or more people are using the same number.

In July, the White House touted the program as a "clear and reliable way to verify employment eligibility" as Congress sought a comprehensive solution to illegal immigration.

"Swift has played by the rules and relied in good faith on a program explicitly held out by the President of the United States as an effective tool to help employers comply with applicable immigration laws," Swift CEO and President Sam Rovit said in a statement.

ICE officials rejected Swift's alternate plan of visiting one plant at a time over a 10 week to four-month period, saying such a move would tip off other workers.

In rejecting Swift's request for an injunction, Robinson noted that the Basic Pilot program had weaknesses and that the government has known since at least August 2005 that it could not detect identity theft.

Rovit said "Swift has never condoned the employment of unauthorized workers nor has it ever knowingly hired such individuals."

Company officials did not return a call left after hours seeking comment on their estimate of workers who might be removed.

ICE said it found about 170 people who were engaged in identity theft at Swift plants.

In one case, a Texas woman was contacted by the IRS seeking back taxes for unreported earnings, while a North Carolina woman filed a complaint after receiving a Social Security earnings report stating that her brother, who died in February 2005, was still working, according to arrest affidavits filed in Colorado district court.

In both cases, the Social Security numbers were being used by people working at Swift's Greeley plant, according to the affidavits.

Between Oct. 19 and Nov. 17, Swift voluntarily interviewed 450 suspected employees at several of its plants and found that between 90 to 95 percent were not who they said they were, according to court documents. Four hundred were fired or quit and the company stopped that self-review at ICE's insistence, the documents said.

The injunction request was filed in Amarillo, Texas, near where Swift's Cactus plant is located.

Swift's court action was not filed on behalf of workers. The United Food and Commercial International Workers union said it would ask federal judges in all six states for injunctions to halt the raids. Union spokeswoman Jill Cashen said attorneys were gathering details before filing the requests.

The nationality of the immigrants was not clear Tuesday night, but the Mexican government released a statement pledging to ensure that any of its citizens in the raid have "their human rights fully respected, and are given all the necessary assistance, orientation and consular protection."

In a statement, the department asked U.S. authorities to allow Mexican representatives to visit detainees, and announced plans for visits to all six meatpacking plants.

U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., an outspoken advocate of stricter immigration laws, praised the raids. He said Swift officials should be prosecuted if they were involved in hiring any illegal immigrants.

"My hope at this point is that the U.S. government has the courage to prosecute the Swift & Co. executives who may have been complicit in their hiring," Tancredo said in a statement.

Community leaders held a candlight vigil near a federal complex in suburban Denver and denounced the raids as splitting families and arresting some Americans based on the color of their skin.

"ICE has overstepped the bounds of decency and respect," said Fidel "Butch" Montoya, spokesman for Confianza, a coalition of Latino ministers. "Families have been separated and confusion reigns as families try to understand what has happened."
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12-14-2006, 12:43 AM
April

Quote:

Crusader01 Posted:

Sailor wrote:
The answer to the problem of the children of illegals picked up for deportation is really simple. Get the children connected with their parents and send them all back to Mexico.l Now is that too hard for those knucklehead whiners to understand?

Yes I agree, but I would add to that have the Army Corp of Engineers Construct a wall or hire Americans to build it, arm it with either National Guard, or a Citizens Militia, and then start prosecutions of those who are responsible for this invasion of criminals including employers, private citizens and politicians behind it. And go after Mexico for the billions it has costed us taxpayers, and the other countries r

I like the way you guys think!!! :D
12-14-2006, 01:00 AM
MW

Lone_Patriot wrote:

Quote:

is there currently any legislation in the works that would end this 14 th amendment debacle?

Republican members of the U.S. Congress have attempted to pass such legislation, but the proposed bills never made it out of committee. If we couldn't get such a bill passed under a Republican controled U.S. House and Senate, we're certainly not going to get one passed with the Dem's in control.

Each of the below listed bills would have ended citizenship rights to children born from an illegal immigrant mother.

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H.R.698
Title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deny citizenship at birth to children born in the United States of parents who are not citizens or permanent resident aliens.

Sponsor: Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-10] (introduced 2/9/2005) Cosponsors (87)

Latest Major Action: 3/2/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
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COSPONSORS(87), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Rep Aderholt, Robert B. [AL-4] - 2/8/2006
Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] - 6/30/2005
Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] - 5/23/2005
Rep Baker, Richard H. [LA-6] - 2/9/2005
Rep Barrett, J. Gresham [SC-3] - 10/19/2005
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] - 2/9/2005
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] - 6/22/2006
Rep Bilirakis, Michael [FL-9] - 4/12/2005
Rep Bonner, Jo [AL-1] - 11/16/2005
Rep Boozman, John [AR-3] - 11/10/2005
Rep Bradley, Jeb [NH-1] - 12/7/2005
Rep Brady, Kevin [TX-8] - 6/20/2005
Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr. [SC-1] - 9/6/2005
Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] - 11/18/2005
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] - 2/9/2005
Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] - 11/16/2005
Rep Campbell, John [CA-48] - 12/16/2005
Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] - 11/9/2005
Rep Conaway, K. Michael [TX-11] - 9/15/2005
Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] - 4/5/2005
Rep Cunningham, Randy (Duke) [CA-50] - 11/18/2005
Rep Davis, Geoff [KY-4] - 5/5/2005
Rep Davis, Jo Ann [VA-1] - 2/9/2005
Rep Drake, Thelma D. [VA-2] - 11/10/2005
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] - 2/9/2005
Rep Everett, Terry [AL-2] - 5/5/2005
Rep Foley, Mark [FL-16] - 11/9/2005
Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] - 11/10/2005
Rep Foxx, Virginia [NC-5] - 11/9/2005
Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] - 2/9/2005
Rep Gingrey, Phil [GA-11] - 2/9/2005
Rep Gohmert, Louie [TX-1] - 11/16/2005
Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [VA-5] - 2/9/2005
Rep Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6] - 2/1/2006
Rep Gutknecht, Gil [MN-1] - 7/11/2005
Rep Hayes, Robin [NC-8] - 5/17/2006
Rep Hayworth, J. D. [AZ-5] - 9/29/2005
Rep Hefley, Joel [CO-5] - 11/18/2005
Rep Herger, Wally [CA-2] - 9/6/2005
Rep Hunter, Duncan [CA-52] - 4/5/2005
Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49] - 11/16/2005
Rep Jenkins, William L. [TN-1] - 11/18/2005
Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] - 11/9/2005
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] - 2/9/2005
Rep Kelly, Sue W. [NY-19] - 11/16/2005
Rep King, Steve [IA-5] - 9/15/2005
Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] - 2/9/2005
Rep Kline, John [MN-2] - 10/28/2005
Rep Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [NY-29] - 6/16/2005
Rep Linder, John [GA-7] - 11/9/2005
Rep Manzullo, Donald A. [IL-16] - 2/9/2005
Rep Marchant, Kenny [TX-24] - 6/16/2005
Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. [MI-11] - 9/21/2005
Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] - 10/19/2005
Rep McKeon, Howard P. (Buck) [CA-25] - 11/18/2005
Rep Mica, John L. [FL-7] - 9/28/2005
Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] - 2/9/2005
Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] - 11/9/2005
Rep Murphy, Tim [PA-18] - 12/7/2005
Rep Musgrave, Marilyn N. [CO-4] - 10/19/2005
Rep Myrick, Sue [NC-9] - 9/6/2005
Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] - 7/18/2005
Rep Norwood, Charlie [GA-9] - 2/9/2005
Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] - 2/14/2006
Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] - 11/16/2005
Rep Pitts, Joseph R. [PA-16] - 11/18/2005
Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] - 11/16/2005
Rep Price, Tom [GA-6] - 4/5/2005
Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1] - 11/18/2005
Rep Rogers, Mike D. (AL) [AL-3] - 11/10/2005
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 2/9/2005
Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] - 11/16/2005
Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] - 3/17/2005
Rep Shadegg, John B. [AZ-3] - 3/17/2005
Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] - 5/17/2006
Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] - 12/7/2005
Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21] - 2/9/2005
Rep Souder, Mark E. [IN-3] - 7/11/2005
Rep Sullivan, John [OK-1] - 6/21/2005
Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] - 2/9/2005
Rep Taylor, Charles H. [NC-11] - 9/22/2005
Rep Walden, Greg [OR-2] - 11/16/2005
Rep Wamp, Zach [TN-3] - 5/5/2005
Rep Weldon, Dave [FL-15] - 11/10/2005
Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A. [GA-8] - 4/12/2005
Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] - 11/18/2005
Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] - 6/24/2005

Quote:

H.R.3938
Title: To provide for comprehensive immigration reform.

Sponsor: Rep Hayworth, J. D. [AZ-5] (introduced 9/29/2005) Cosponsors (33)

Latest Major Action: 10/26/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.

H.R. 3938 - would put an end to the birthright citizenship process that automatically grants citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens.
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COSPONSORS(33), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] - 10/6/2005
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] - 6/22/2006
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] - 10/18/2005
Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] - 9/29/2005
Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] - 9/29/2005
Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] - 10/18/2005
Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-10] - 9/29/2005
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] - 9/29/2005
Rep Everett, Terry [AL-2] - 9/29/2005
Rep Foxx, Virginia [NC-5] - 9/29/2005
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] - 9/29/2005
Rep Gohmert, Louie [TX-1] - 9/29/2005
Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [VA-5] - 9/29/2005
Rep Gutknecht, Gil [MN-1] - 9/29/2005
Rep Hunter, Duncan [CA-52] - 9/29/2005
Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] - 9/29/2005
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] - 9/29/2005
Rep Kelly, Sue W. [NY-19] - 9/29/2005
Rep King, Steve [IA-5] - 9/29/2005
Rep Marchant, Kenny [TX-24] - 10/19/2005
Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. [MI-11] - 9/29/2005
Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] - 10/6/2005
Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] - 9/29/2005
Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] - 9/29/2005
Rep Norwood, Charlie [GA-9] - 9/29/2005
Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] - 9/29/2005
Rep Price, Tom [GA-6] - 10/28/2005
Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1] - 9/29/2005
Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] - 10/19/2005
Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] - 9/29/2005
Rep Sullivan, John [OK-1] - 10/18/2005
Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] - 9/29/2005
Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] - 10/18/2005
Rep Weldon, Dave [FL-15] - 10/18/2005 (withdrawn - 9/29/2006)

Quote:

H.R.6294
Title: To provide children born in the United States with the same citizenship and immigration status as their mothers.
Sponsor: Rep Marchant, Kenny [TX-24] (introduced 9/29/2006) Cosponsors (None)
Latest Major Action: 9/29/2006 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Quote:

S.2117
Title: A bill to clarify the circumstances under which a person born in the United States is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to provide for criminal penalties for forging Federal documents, to establish a National Border Neighborhood Watch Program, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK] (introduced 12/15/2005) Cosponsors (None)

Latest Major Action: 12/15/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
12-14-2006, 02:03 AM
Jean

Thanks for posting that list MW.
Lots of fine people there.
Btw, Rep Duncan Hunter is mentioned and he is running for pres 2008. Yeah, yeah everyone says he doesn't stand a chance but I'm in a wait and see mode. If a candidate came out strong on such issues he'd have a good chance because American citizens are tired of the same old elite spoon fed candidates we're handed that don't work for us but their own interests.
12-14-2006, 02:09 AM
jamesw62

Re: 800 illegals in Greeley plant, not just 300

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetsyRoss

http://www.10news.com/news/10527729/detail.html

Children In Limbo After Immigration Raids
Almost 3,000 Suspected Illegal Immigrants Arrested

POSTED: 1:36 pm PST December 13, 2006
UPDATED: 2:10 pm PST December 13, 2006

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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- The fate of children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents live in the country illegally is uncertain following a six-state sweep Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

ICE officials rounded up and arrested almost 3,000 suspected illegal immigrants at six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Colorado, Nebreaska, Texas, Utah, Iowa and Minnesota on Tuesday.

A union spokesman said Wednesday that as many as 250 workers were detained in Nebraska, TV station KETV reported.

The threat of deportation could leave the city of Grand Island caring for scores of children who are U.S. citizens but whose parents now face possible deportation.

Barr Middle School in Grand Island became a shelter for children on Tuesday. Teachers and other school officials spent the day finding safe places for children of parents in federal custody.

Grand Island Schools Superintendent Steve Joel said the mothers taken into custody were released to come home and take care of their children, but that some of those children might not see their fathers for a long time.

"By 3:30, kids were pretty traumatized," Joel said. "They didn't know what they're facing when they go home."

Joel said his staff started working on what to do with the children as soon as he got the word at about 8 a.m. Tuesday.

"We had a lot of relatives come forward to take these kids. We had teachers who took children to homes they could identify with," Joel said.

Joel said some teachers even offered to take home a displaced child. In the end they didn't have to, but Joel estimated that 1,100 children were impacted by the DHS action in Grand Island.

Joel said he realizes that there is a lot of fear in the immigrant community about what might happen if parents send their children to school on Wednesday. He said he wants those parents to trust him.

"School is a safe house. We're going to protect our kids and our families," he said.

Joel said immigrant parents got a call in Spanish from the district on Tuesday night assuring them that teachers wouldn't turn their children over to federal agents.

Colorado County Hit Hard

Weld County Social Services in Colorado prepared for an expected influx of cases after hundreds of workers at the Swift plant in Greely were arrested.

At least 800 workers at the Greeley plant were identified as illegal immigrants; 300 of them will be deported within the week, said Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck.

Swift had been tipped to the planned raid earlier, Denver TV station KMGH reported. But the raid caught Weld County Social Services by surprise. The agency is responsible for the welfare of families and children in the county and it expected many families would be affected by the loss of income.

"Our wish would have been they would have let us know beforehand," said Judy Griego, director of Weld County Social Services, speaking to the Greeley Tribune. "We have kind of collapsed around this situation internally. Frankly, we don't know how many kids are involved in this now. It's kind of guesswork."

The top priority, Griego told the newspaper, is to find relatives or friends of detained parents. They would be first-choice caretakers, while the county would provide "wraparound services" such as emergency food or financial support.

All foster-care facilities in Weld and Larimer counties were put on alert by Weld County commissioners.

Weld County merchants were expected to feel the economic blow from the raid as well.

"Quite honestly, you're looking at two weeks before Christmas, and there is buying power leaving the economy," said Sarah Macquiddy, president of the Greeley Chamber of Commerce. "I'm sure that Swift will be able to survive this. But if they don't, it's really sad. The issue being made out of the illegal aliens is minuscule compared to the impact that Swift has on our economy."

Buck said that the raid adversely affects many families that are were working to put their children through school in Colorado, but there are other victims involved.

"It is a difficult day in Greeley. But it's also been a difficult day around the country as people's identities have been stolen and they've had to go and clean up their credit. And they've suffered great harm also," Buck said.

FATE- these kids will never be left behind and they are ALSO citizens of Mexico if that is where the parents are from so they already have citizenship in that country. SOOOOOOOOOOOO send em south with the parents.