by Julia Preston, New York Times
May 5, 2009
The immigration lawyers’ national bar association called on the Justice Department on Tuesday to consider dismissing the guilty pleas of nearly 300 illegal immigrant workers arrested in a meatpacking plant raid in Iowa last year, one day after the Supreme Court rejected a statute that prosecutors used to pressure them.
In its decision Monday, the court ruled that to win convictions for identity theft, prosecutors had to show that illegal immigrants knew that false identification documents they presented to employers actually belonged to another real person.
A Federal District Court in Iowa saw immediate fallout on Tuesday from the Supreme Court’s decision, as prosecutors dropped one charge against a human resources manager from the meatpacking plant, Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, Iowa. [...]
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1 comment:
What ever came about this courtcase. I heard that the meat packaging facility was shut down, but did the immigrants get deported?
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