“When federal agents descended on six meatpacking plants owned by Swift & Co. in December 2006, they rounded up nearly 1,300 suspected illegal immigrants that made up about 10% of the labor force at the plants. But the raids . . . did not cripple the company or the plants. In fact, they were back up and running at full staff within months by replacing those removed with a significant number of native-born Americans . . . That was the most extreme example of what has become an increasingly common result of the raids: "They were very beneficial to American workers" . . . "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."
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2009-09-13-plants_N.htm
As unemployment creeps up to 10%, doesn’t this mean that we should more strictly enforce our immigration laws?
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