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The 2006 Swift raids were a coordinated effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain and deport undocumented workers. On Tuesday, December 12, 2006, ICE raided six Swift & Company meatpacking plants in the midwestern United States. Workers were detained in central areas of these plants, where they were searched and interrogated. About 1,300 workers, accused of immigration violations and identity theft, were arrested and bused to detention facilities; most were deported. ICE's "Operation Wagon Train", which culminated in the Swift raids, represented a new stage of immigration enforcement. The operation marked the beginning of increased workplace actions, as well as the special targeting of undocumented immigrants who were also accused of crimes.〔〔Camila Ibanez, " (Imagine if everyday were 9/11. For one community in the US, it is. )" ''Waging Nonviolence'', December 12, 2013.〕 It was the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history. ==Background== Undocumented immigrants make up an estimated 5.1 percent of the US workforce.〔(5 facts about illegal immigration ), Pew Research Center, 24 July 2015.〕 At Swift & Co. meatpackers (purchased soon after the raids by JBS S.A.), those arrested during the raid were 10% of the company's workforce. Because only undocumented immigrants from the first shift were arrested, the actual proportion of undocumented workers may have been substantially higher. ICE, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), investigated Swift for ten months prior to the raid. ICE subpoenaed Swift's employee records in March 2006.〔 It confirmed that some of Swift's employees had used Social Security information and birth certificates of others to illegally obtain employment.〔 Swift apparently learned that they were under investigation, and was already making efforts to decrease their reliance on undocumented workers.〔 The company shed about 400 undocumented workers between March and December 2006.〔 However, upon request from the DHS, Swift did not inform its workers about the coming raids.〔 On November 28, 2006, Swift requested an injunction against an ICE enforcement action, arguing that they were cooperating as best they could. On December 7, the injunction was denied by District Judge Mary Lou Robinson. On December 8, ICE obtained a search warrant, which served as legal justification for the raid.〔〔 The basis of this warrant was 133 suspicious cases at Swift & Co. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swift raids」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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