The NYT, 20 November 2009, reported the DOJ dropped the remaining immigration charges against Sholom Rubashkin (SR). It's hard to carry water for SR, but I doubt this case would have been brought if not at the banks' behest.
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Another take from the Des Moines Register...
"It sounds a little bit ironic, given that the employees were prosecuted so quickly," said Lori Chesser, a Des Moines lawyer who specializes in immigration cases. "But I don't think it is any indication of the government letting up on prosecuting employers for immigration violations."
Craig Halverson of Griswold, national director of the Minuteman Patriots, a conservative activist group that opposes illegal immigration, said proceeding with a trial would have sent a message to businesses that they shouldn't violate immigration laws.
More than 300 people, mostly from Guatemala and Mexico, were arrested at Agriprocessors in the largest single site immigration enforcement operation in Iowa history.
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