BORDER CONTROL

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Greeley CO. Is named after Horace Greeley. “Go west young man.”
“Egyptian writer and educator Sayyid Qutb spent the better half of 1949 in Greeley, Colo”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1253796

It is the home of the Swift meat packing plant at which there were arrests of illegal immigrants last week.

“A total of 1,282 workers were arrested Tuesday at six Swift & Co. meat packing plants, including 261 workers at the plant in Greeley, federal officials said during a press conference this morning.?
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_4832387


“2006-10-26...Authorities say they have dismantled a drug cartel headquartered in Greeley that moved millions of dollars in high-quality "ice" methamphetamine in buses and packed inside stuffed toys. Stretching from Los Angeles to Roanoke, Va., the operation primarily sought to monopolize the methamphetamine.”..
http://search.denverpost.com/sp?aff=26&keywords=greeley+meth+labs

The main reason behind the raids it is said was to bust a large identity theft ring.

2006-12-13...Greeley - After massive raids on Swift & Co. meatpacking plants here and in five other states, immigration authorities are building a new kind of case against illegal workers: accusing them of hijacking the identities of U.S. citizens. Authorities contend workers bought or stole names and Social...
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_4825289

Interestingly enough it has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country.

In August, Weld County had the worst foreclosure rate in the United States. Many foreclosures came on new homes sold by aggressive builders to people who had no money for a down payment and no real estate agent representing them.
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"Weld County has no functional zoning," he said. "It's simply open season."
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The Post analysis found high foreclosure rates in several communities of one national builder, KB Home. In most cases, the loans for those homes came from KB's mortgage branch.
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In Kentfield, a Thornton neighborhood, 80 of the original buyers have been foreclosed. Seventy, or 87 percent, borrowed from KB's mortgage company. About half were foreclosed on their original loans, which KB sold to other lenders, and half refinanced before their foreclosures.
Nearly all the original loans were insured by the Federal Housing Administration, which collects fees from borrowers to cover losses.
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He attributed the foreclosures in Greeley to predatory lending, a mass layoff at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant two years ago and an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty among immigrant families who bought many of the new houses.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4890161

And finally
Eighteen former Swift & Co. employees who worked at the meatpacker's Cactus, Texas, plant have filed a $23 million lawsuit alleging that Swift hired illegal workers to depress employee wages.
The suit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, claims Swift engaged in "racketeering activity" by "establishing a pattern of practice over several years and looking the other way" when illegal immigrants presented what the company should have known were falsified documents and phony stories, said Angel Reyes, a Texas lawyer who represents the former Swift employees.
Swift quietly replaced the 18 former employees - all of Mexican descent and legal residents or U.S. citizens - with illegal
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_4863807