Poultry Plant Manager Indicted for Hiring Illegal Workers
The manager of the Greenville, S.C. poultry plant is facing charges for knowingly hiring undocumented workers. The plant was raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials back in October and more than 300 suspected illegal aliens were arrested at the Columbia Farms poultry processing plant.
According to yesterday's indictment, manager Barry Cronic began hiring illegal workers in 2000 and continued to do so until the raid in 2008. Personnel manager Elaine Crump was also indicted and charged with 20 counts of telling illegal aliens to use falsified documents.
Most of the 300 arrested have been deported except for about 20 that are serving jail time for using falsified documents and Social Security cards. The Greenville raid was the third largest raid in 2008. Nearly 700 illegal aliens were arrested during a raid at a Mississippi electrical plant and 389 were arrested at an Iowa slaughterhouse.
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