This week's immigration raid on meatpacking giant Swift and Company may have changed some basic relationships between the industry and the government. Swift knew the raid was coming and tried to head it off. The company's efforts failed and nearly 1300 suspected illegal immigrants were hauled off from six Swift plants around the U.S. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Steil reports.
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