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297 Illegal Immigrants Get Jail in Federal Crackdown

Posted May 24, 08 7:08 AM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Some 270 illegal immigrants have been sentenced to 5 months in federal prison in a sign that the Bush administration is taking a much harder line on undocumented workers, the New York Times reports. Busted for using fake IDs, the workers were among 389 swept up at a kosher meat-packing plant in Iowa in the biggest immigration raid on a workplace in US history. Until now, undocumented workers have usually been detained and deported.

The immigrants, mostly Guatemalan, will be deported after serving their sentences. "I don’t doubt for a moment that you are good, hard-working people who have done what you did to help your families,” the judge told the immigrants. “Unfortunately for you, you committed a violation of federal law.” The US attorney  for northern Iowa called the operation an “astonishing success.”

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Illegal immigrants from Mexico wait in a holding area in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, May 1, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alicia Caldwell)
Becky Smith of Texas City shouts across to protestors in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants as they gathered in Antioch Park in downtown Houston, Thursday, May 1, 2008.   (AP Photo/ Johnny Hanson, Houston Chronicle )
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents search employees from the French Gourmet Restaurant and catering company during an immigration raid Thursday May 15, 2008 in San Diego.   (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents prepare for a raid.   (KRT Photos)
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