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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5805087" data-attributes="member: 24302">I was working in the Texas Panhandle in about 2007 when a Swift packing plant was raided by ICE and over 1000 illegals were arrested.  The funny thing is that Swift was tipped off about the raid and started advertising for workers about a month before the raid.  Offered about $12.50hr if I remember right plus benefits.  Much more than they were paying the illegals.  Within a couple of days of the raid they were up and running again.  Good luck getting white employees?  A lot of people in rural towns barely make it and would gladly take such jobs.  But they aren't going to do it for $7hr and no benefits.  P.S.  You don't use illegals to pick corn.  They have machines for that.  You live in the city, huh?</blockquote>