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44. The Raid (Agriprocessors)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 β€’ 9.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

An immigration raid at a kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa uncovers financial crimes committed by the company's CEO, Sholom Rubashkin. Prelude: Thirteen hundred undocumented workers are arrested during a coordinated raid of six Swift & Co. meatpacking facilities. –––-–---------------------------------------- PATREON: Patreon.com/Swindled DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop –––-–---------------------------------------- MUSIC: Deformr.com –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I just wanted to give you a quick heads up that this episode contains some graphic descriptions

0:05.7

of butchering and the meat packing process as well as some horrific treatments of animals

0:11.2

and people.

0:12.7

So you might want to hold off on this one, at least and tell you finish your lunch.

0:17.4

Listen to their discretion as advised.

0:20.5

The Swift Meat Packing Plant near Cactus is effectively shut down tonight.

0:24.5

A fallout continues in Worthington after Tuesday's raid on a meat packing plant.

0:28.8

The Swift and Company owns the plants where nearly 1,300 employees were arrested in

0:32.5

six different states.

0:34.4

Over 200 who were taken into custody remain in detention centers here in Colorado, their

0:39.0

families and friends who have been completely in the dark about their loved ones whereabouts

0:43.7

since the raid yesterday morning.

0:47.0

For the 13,000 employees of the Swift and Company Meat Packing Plants, Tuesday, December

0:53.2

12, 2006 was supposed to be just another day.

0:58.1

Go up to work, punch the time clock, butcher some animals, go home to the family, have some

1:05.1

dinner, maybe watch a little TV, put the kids to bed, fall asleep and then do it all over

1:11.7

again the next day.

1:14.9

But it became very apparent early in the morning shift that Tuesday, December 12 was going

1:20.3

to be different.

1:22.4

At about 8 a.m., fans and buses containing 1,000 immigration and customs enforcement agents

1:29.5

backed by local police units in riot care.

1:32.8

Simultaneously descended upon six different meat packing plants in Colorado, Texas, Nebraska,

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