Immigration News

==Factory had tension between union, immigrants

LAUREL, Miss. (AP) -- Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions....

==2nd supervisor at Iowa meat plant pleads guilty

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A second supervisor arrested after a large raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa has pleaded guilty to immigration charges....

==Iowa governor denounces meatpacking plant in paper

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa Gov. Chet Culver denounced a kosher meatpacking plant accused of child labor violations, echoing Upton Sinclair's disdain of cruelty toward immigrants....

==Immigration agency vows more enforcement

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Federal immigration officials vowed Friday to intensify efforts to track down illegal immigrants after scrapping a trial "self-deportation" program that attracted only eight volunteers....