Another surreal bit...

Apparently, the INS has raided six meatpacking plants and arrested about 1250 people for immigration and other law violations. Swift & Co. is irate because this move is likely to shut down large portions of their operation, and apparently even sued the INS to prevent it on the grounds that they'd done due diligence to ensure their workers were legal.

Perhaps, but what puzzles me is why Swift would put large, razor sharp butcher knives into peoples' hands without doing a basic background check. Had they done this basic, common sense operation, they wouldn't have hired these people in the first place. They would have known that they were not who they claimed to be.