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  • Poultry firm fined $1.5 million after immigration raid, monitoring 4 Nov 2009 02:33 GMT
    ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. - House of Raeford Farms must pay a $1.5 million fine and ... Columbia Farms was charged with intentionally hiring illegal immigrants. A McClatchy Newspapers investigation of workplace ... people. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Agriculture will have to determine whether the company ...

  • Poultry giant cuts a deal 4 Nov 2009 13:54 GMT
    ... Elaine Crump, human resources director at Columbia Farms plant in Greenville, S.C. Prosecutors contend Crump ... Prosecutors charge Columbia Farms with knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. Nov. 3 - The company agrees ... people. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Agriculture will have to determine whether the company ...

  • Poultry Plant Immigration Cases Avoid Trial 16min 4 Nov 2009 12:58 GMT
    ... Walt Wilkins: Company's 'Systemic' Problems Led To Hiring Illegal Immigrants POSTED: 5:18 pm EST November 3, ... One year after federal agents raided Columbia Farms in Greenville County and detained more than ...

  • Chicken Plant Avoids Federal Prosecution 3 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
    ... Walt Wilkins: Company's 'Systemic' Problems Led To Hiring Illegal Immigrants POSTED: 5:18 pm EST November 3, ... One year after federal agents raided Columbia Farms in Greenville County and detained more than ...

  • Poultry giant to pay fine 4 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... Columbia Farms changing hiring practices after settling immigration violations ... Columbia Farms was charged with knowingly hiring illegal immigrants following a massive raid at its ...

  • Prosecutors reach agreement with SC poultry plant 3 Nov 2009 16:34 GMT
    ... COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina poultry ... to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Under the ... in federal court in South Carolina, Columbia Farms, Inc., will also pay the government $1.5 ...

  • Raided SC poultry plant mends hiring, avoids trial 3 Nov 2009 16:52 GMT
    ... COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina poultry ... to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Under the ... in federal court in South Carolina, Columbia Farms, Inc., will also pay the government $1.5 ...

  • Raided SC poultry plant agrees to fix hiring practices to avoid federal immigration case 3 Nov 2009 16:57 GMT
    ... COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina poultry ... to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Under the ... in federal court in South Carolina, Columbia Farms, Inc., will also pay the government $1.5 ...

  • Raided SC poultry plant mends hiring, avoids trial 3 Nov 2009 22:12 GMT
    ... Raided SC poultry plant mends hiring, avoids trial ... to avoid federal charges of knowingly employing illegal immigrants, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Under the ... prosecutors said Tuesday. Under the agreement, Columbia Farms, Inc., will also pay the government $1.5 ...

  • Poultry Plant Immigration Cases Avoid Trial 3 Nov 2009 15:50 GMT
    ... Columbia Farms Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement POSTED: 10:26 ... managers were accused of knowing about the illegal documentation and intentionally hiring illegal immigrants. The ...

  • Columbia Farms settles immigration case 3 Nov 2009 21:30 GMT
    ... GREENVILLE, S.C., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- South Carolina ... hiring practices to avoid a conviction for illegal hiring. The company agreed to have federal ... Carolina. House of Raeford, which owns Columbia Farms, has already embarked on a "comprehensive overhaul" ...

  • Wet weather delays harvest from Midwest to South 5 Nov 2009 10:13 GMT
    ... Great Plains to the Deep South, frustrating farmers and raising questions about whether some in ... their cotton, according to preliminary estimates by agricultural economists and Louisiana State and Mississippi State ... Don't do anything or post anything considered illegal by city, county, state or federal regulations ...


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