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Article: Supervisor: Workers given fraudulent cards
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A former kosher slaughterhouse supervisor
testified Thursday that the plant scrambled to get workers new
identification documents the night before a massive immigration
raid.
Former Agriprocessors, Inc., supervisor Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza
said managers provided permanent resident cards to 20 employees and
had them fill out new applications the night before the May 2008
raid at the Iowa plant, where nearly 400 workers were arrested.
Guerrero-Espinoza said the cards were fake and made in Minneapolis a
week before the raid.
His testimony came in the third week of former manager Sholom
Rubashkin's federal trial on 91 financial fraud charges.
Prosecutors have been introducing ...