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From: LindyBill	5/24/2008 8:32:38 PM
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A Radical Policy Change? By George Borjas What's going on here? First, the Bush administration more or less chooses not to enforce the law for several years, and now this: In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds, nearly 300 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for working at a meatpacking plant with false documents. The prosecutions, which ended yesterday, signal a sharp escalation in the Bush administration's crackdown on illegal workers, with prosecutors bringing tough federal criminal charges against most of the immigrants who were arrested in a May 12 raid. Previously, unauthorized workers have generally been detained by immigration officials for civil violations and rapidly deported from the country. The convicted immigrants were among 389 workers detained at the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meats plant in nearby Postville, in a raid that federal officials called the largest criminal enforcement operation ever carried out by immigration authorities at a workplace. A very quick reaction: incarcerating illegal immigrants arrested in these types of raids is not cheap, but could be a very effective deterrent in the future. Why such a radical policy shift? And why now?

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