Employing undocumented workers in Texas is illegal, but rarely enforced

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Employing undocumented workers in Texas is illegal, but rarely enforced

AUSTIN (KXAN) – May 12, 2008, was a life-changing day for Postville, Iowa, and its 2,000 residents in the northeast corner of the state. Helicopters circled overhead as a swarm of federal agents raided the city’s largest employer – a kosher meatpacking plant called Agriprocessors.Immigration authorities hauled off nearly 400 suspected unauthorized workers. The facility owner, Sholom Rubashkin of New York City, would be arrested and charged with 70 counts of harboring undocumented aliens for profit – a federal crime targeting him for employing undocumented immigrants.The Agriprocessors raid was one of the biggest in the last 25 years. It followed ..