Iowa: Lawsuit Filed Over Raid

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The nation’s largest single immigration raid, in which nearly 400 workers at an Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville were detained on Monday, violated the constitutional rights of workers at a meatpacking plant, a lawsuit contends. The suit accuses the government of arbitrary and indefinite detention. A spokesman for the United States attorney’s office said he could not comment on the suit, which was filed Thursday on behalf of about 147 of the workers. Prosecutors said they filed criminal charges against 306 of the detained workers. The charges include accusations of aggravated identity theft, falsely using a Social Security number, illegally re-entering the United States after being deported and fraudulently using an alien registration card.

NY Times

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1. Why were the owners of Agriprocessors not thrown in jail?

Everyone knows they solicit undocumented workers. I also heard that they paid workers who couldn't produce documents less than those who could.

And the workers were detained? This is immoral and we should all be outraged.

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2. Whistleblowers (former employees) have provided enough info to jail owners. nt