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By-Products: Immigration, Raids, And Meatpacking In Rural Communities, Kevin D. Hanks
By-Products: Immigration, Raids, And Meatpacking In Rural Communities, Kevin D. Hanks
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this thesis is to show the short- and long-term responses and adaptations of workers and employers in the meatpacking industry to the new immigration enforcement strategy of the increased use of worksite immigration raids. Worksite raids have become part of the new immigration enforcement strategy of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (I.C.E.). A review of the literature regarding the meatpacking industry, its history, relocation to and impacts on rural communities, and of immigration policy over the last 70 years is conducted. A case study of the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Hyrum, Utah that experienced …