Swift meatpacking raid: manager pleads guilty, may testify against higher-ups

In December, 2006, Swift & Co.'s meatpacking plants in various cities were raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in what was probably a show raid.

Now, one of their former managers has pleaded guilty (link):

Christopher Lamb is a human resources manager at Swift & Company. He was arrested last summer after authorities recorded him coaching an illegal immigrant on how to use fake documents to get hired... In his plea, Lamb also admitted hiding an illegal immigrant at the plant from June 3rd to June 25th.

The real story will hopefully be this:

He is now expected to give prosecutors even more information about the hiring of undocumented workers at the plant, and his attorney thinks the case will move up the Swift chain of command.

Previously:
UFCW, Mexico-linked Peter Schey sue DHS over immigration raids (4th Amendment, yeah sure)
Crooked Towns: Sharon Cohen/AP on illegal immigration in Marshalltown, Iowa
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union supports illegal immigration, opposes "no match"
voceunidas.org is now the Swift Raid Collaborative (Mexico-linked Peter Schey)
Senators on Swift raid; "designed to fail"; Chertoff "not in the business of doing amnesty"
Swift hearing: Chertoff, Allard, Hatch, Klobuchar, Coleman, Harkin, Grassley
Tom Vilsack misled about Swift raid, DHS cooperation?
Swift and Company raids leading to collapse of Pork Industry?
Wall Street Journal not very Swift in support for illegal immigration
Swift slabs of pro-illegal immigration propaganda
Greeley, Colorado encouraging illegal immigration
Roxana Hegeman/AP: the $5 Swift sausage scare
What were the Swift & Co. illegal aliens thinking?
"Meatpacking raids: A victim's story" (Swift, identity theft)
PBS NewsHour's Soviet-style immigration coverage

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