53 former Swift employees arrested in Texas raid

The immigration fraud connected to Swift employees is not over.

A federal grand jury has indicted 53 former workers at a Swift & Co. meat-processing plant in Cactus on felony charges of identity theft.

The former workers were among 295 people arrested in December when federal immigration agents raided the plant in the Texas Panhandle. Authorities said all had taken the identities of U.S. citizens.

Each of the 53 workers named in the indictment was charged with one count of false representation of a Social Security Number, a felony which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Dallas. Many face additional charges.

Besides the Social Security count, most of the 53 defendants were also charged with aggravated identity theft, having fraudulent immigration documents, and false representation of U.S. citizenship.

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