Immigration Raids Benefit Legal Workers
Written by Steve DuBord
Monday, 21 September 2009 14:52

According to a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report, raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are not only catching illegal immigrants, they are clearing the way for legal workers to take over the positions vacated by illegals.

A case in point was reported by USA Today on September 15. ICE cracked down on six meatpacking plants operated by Swift & Co. in December 2006, rounding up almost 1,300 illegal immigrants. This represented approximately 10 percent of the workers at the six plants.

How did Swift & Co. respond to such a sudden reduction in its labor force? With new-found ethics resulting from being caught with its hand in the illegal-immigrant cookie jar, the company turned to legal American workers and was back to full staff in a matter of months.

“Whenever there’s an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do those jobs that Americans will supposedly not do,â€