Tyson Foods
1. Hillary worked for Tyson as a lawyer--giving LEGAL advice.
2. Governor Bill & Tyson-- allegations of influence-peddling.
3. President Bill pardons Tyson executive convicted and imprisoned for trying to bribe Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy.
4. 2002 Tyson charged with smuggling illegal aliens & providing false papers.
5. Hillary votes for amnesty for illegal aliens.
6. Tyson Foods opposes immigration law enforcement & forms lobby group. (See discussion group: Tyson Foods Opposes Immigration Law Enforcement)
7. Hillary lobbied not to enforce immigration laws by lobbyists convicted of breaking those laws.

How can Hillary, or anyone else, ethically accept campaign funds from a known criminal business seeking to decriminalize their practices?

Does Tyson Foods provide their immigrant employees with:
1. Health care insurance so the government doesn't pay health care costs for these immigrants?
2. English classes?
3. Citizenship classes?
4. Educational incentives?
5. Disability insurance?
6. A retirement fund?

I think it's time to boycott Tyson Foods products.

http://www.laborers.org/projo_TysonChicken_1-10-02.htm

Providence Journal

Editorial

January 18, 2002

Tyson's Immigrants

Tyson Foods Inc., America's largest meat producer, has a weakness for sharp practices.

When Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, where Tyson is based, there were allegations of influence-peddling in the state government, aggravated by the fact that the governor's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, also served as a lawyer for Tyson. When Bill Clinton was president, a Tyson executive was convicted and sent to prison for trying to bribe Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy. (The executive was later pardoned by President Clinton.)

Now comes news that Tyson faces a 36-count federal indictment for reducing costs in its poultry factories by smuggling illegal aliens into the country from Mexico and providing them with fraudulent work papers. The government asserts that Tyson arranged for illegal aliens to be delivered to 15 plants in nine states, and obtained phony documents for the aliens so that they would be legally employable in the counties and states where the Tyson plants were situated.

A Tyson spokesman denies that there was any companywide "conspiracy" to deliberately augment its workforce with illegal aliens, blaming the charges on a few rogue managers at certain plants. But the sheer volume of the charges, and that the rogue managers operated at so many plants in so many states, suggest that Tyson may be more involved than its public-relations department claims.

To be sure, Tyson remains innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But this extraordinary case illuminates not just Tyson Foods Inc., but the larger problem of illegal aliens in the U.S. economy.

The immigration laws are unambiguous, and ought to be enforced: Illegal aliens have no more inherent right to employment than they have to taxpayer-funded social services. And companies that knowingly import illegal aliens to cut costs are undermining not just their competitors, but the rule of law -- and the wages of citizens.

If it is evident that the size and increasing strength of the U.S. economy require more workers than we can generate here at home, then it might be time to revisit the immigration laws and encourage the importation of greater numbers of potential employees for jobs Americans don't want or cannot fill. There is, however, no excuse for knowingly violating the law now.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln