Thread: Impact Of Immigration Raids On Pork Industry Short Lived

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Impact Of Immigration Raids On Pork Industry Short Lived, Analysts Say

A panel of pork industry analysts said that while Swift & Co. was hurt by the immigration raids conducted by Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division in early December, the impact on the pork industry as a whole was extremely short-lived. “It took the industry less than a week to recover“ and return to pre-raid production levels, said Ron Plain, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri.

One week after the raid, production had returned to 424,000 hogs slaughtered on a daily basis, and some plants ran Saturday shifts to even out production.

Swift reports that while production is still down and will remain so for the short-term, the company is back to operating the same shifts it did before the raid.

By Pete Hisey on Friday, December 29, 2006

See, it is not true, we can do very well without the aid of the illegal immigrants!

Agreed, now if ICE would just deport some more. And none of this catch and release stuff. Deport them all.

Yes, if they would enforce our existing immigration laws...everything would be fine.

....and stop throwing decent border patrol agents in prision and taking up for the drug smugglers!

I don't know how this president and many of these congressmen/women sleep at night!

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Yes it just goes to prove that America does not need these illegals to do its jobs. But then we always knew that.

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