Load The Wagons
December 12, 2006: In "Operation Wagon Train," ICE and FTC agents raided Swift & Co. meatpacking plants across the nation, arresting hundreds in an effort to target identity theft. ICE and the FTC will hold a press conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006. The union seeks to enjoin the raids.
Multiple sources including the rolling coverage by staff reporters at the Greeley, Colorado TRIBUNE.
(Keep your ID handy: these gentlemen* may want to see it, especially if you don't look like me.)
* AP Photo by Ed Andrieski
While no one can complain about law enforcement targeting those who steal your identity to drain your bank account, stealing someone's ID in order to obtain a dirty, dangerous job in a meatpacking plant is a different matter.