Justices might test Bush’s immigration crackdown
The Washington Post
October 19, 2008

WASHINGTON | As hundreds of immigration agents raided a kosher meatpacking plant in May in rural Iowa, prosecutors summoned defense attorneys to the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids.

Their message was blunt: The illegal immigrants arrested must plead guilty to lesser counts or face indictment on charges of aggravated identity theft and possible mandatory two-year prison terms.

“It was a hammer over everyone’s head,â€