Immigration arrests have poultry workers afraid to go to jobs

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | September 5, 2008

Every day Sergio leaves for work at the House of Raeford Farms poultry plant he wonders whether he’ll be arrested. It’s a matter of time, he believes, before immigration agents raid the plant. Smoking a cigarette on his porch, the 40-year-old undocumented poultry worker from Mexico speaks nervously. He says there’s a growing concern among workers that immigration agents will target the West Columbia plant once they finish investigating the company’s Greenville plant, less than 100 miles away. This summer’s arrests of 11 House of Raeford workers in Greenville shocked its S.C. workforce.

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