WHEN FEDERAL IMMIGRATION officials staged a massive raid on Swift & Co. last December, General Counsel Donald Wiseman wasn’t surprised. The government had been looking for illegal aliens in Swift’s workforce for months, and Wiseman knew that immigration agents were planning to show up en masse at the meat processor’s plants.
But even though immigration officials haven’t filed charges against Swift-and have acknowledged that it cooperated fully on the day of the raids-Wiseman is still frustrated that they shut down all but one of the company’s seven facilities. The GC said that Swift has been working for years on ways to identify illegal aliens during its hiring process, such as participating in a government-recommended screening program.
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