"Tyson Foods Becomes First Major Food Company To Join U.S. Immigration Agency's IMAGE Program"

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http://www.thestreet.com/story/10980514/1/tyson-foods-becomes-first-major-food-company-to-join-us-immigration-agencys-image-program.html

Tyson Foods, Inc. is the first major food company to become a full member of the IMAGE program with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), company and government officials announced today.

IMAGE is short for 'ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers.' The program enables businesses, if they meet rigorous standards, to voluntarily partner with the federal government to ensure they are employing people who are legally authorized to work in the United States.

"ICE's collaboration with Tyson Foods illustrates this administration's commitment to working with industry to encourage a culture of compliance with U.S. employment laws," said ICE Director John Morton. "Tyson Foods is setting the gold standard for Fortune 500 companies everywhere, and ICE is proud to be partnering with the company in this significant effort to protect our nation's lawful workforce."

Tyson employs almost 100,000 people at locations throughout the United States. To become certified, the company made all of its Form I-9 employment eligibility documents available for ICE review, cooperated with government field audits of selected plant locations and also allowed ICE to check the Social Security numbers of all company employees.

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1. ICE is a rougue outfit at DHS.

It's full of culture warriors of the right.

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2. It really has not changed over the years, regardless of who is President

It is not alone in that. Many parts of the executive branch are the same way

[xmas74]

3. Really? Tyson's?

I worked for Tyson's back in the nineties. Nearly a quarter of the people working the processing lines were not American born and quite a few were not here legally. (Once you got to know your coworkers a few would tell you that they weren't here legally. They'd also spill the beans on others.)

Anyway, after working at Tyson's I found instances of identity theft. Someone used my name and social security number for employment. I wasn't the only person from that plant with that problem.