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Workplace raids and employer sanctions

The use of workplace raids and employer sanctions as a strategy to disrupt unauthorized employment and penalize employers who hired undocumented labor

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Jan 24, 2026

What were the outcomes of the 2008-2012 meatpacking plant raids and any subsequent prosecutions?

at U.S. meatpacking plants in the late 2000s culminated in two watershed operations—the coordinated raids of December 2006 and the ) raid in May 2008—which together removed or detained well over a tho...