December 12

A U.S. immigration sweep of six Swift meat plants results in arrests of
nearly 1,300 undocumented workers – 2006
_[In Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and
Criminalizes Immigrants, David Bacon, through interviews and on-the-spot
reporting from both impoverished communities abroad and American immigrant
workplaces and neighborhoods, shows how the United States’ trade and
economic policy abroad, in seeking to create a favorable investment climate
for large corporations, creates conditions to displace communities and set
migration into motion. Bacon traces the development of illegal status back
to slavery and shows the human cost of treating the indispensable labor of
millions of migrants -- and the migrants themselves -- as illegal.

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