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Regarding: The Swift Plant in Marshalltown and Newspaper Website comments

I've been seeing a lot of references to the alleged billboard near Mexico that advertises jobs in Marshalltown. If it does in fact exist, someone take a photo for me. But I imagine that it's another situation where the story begins in one place - and the truth is somewhere else by the time it reaches that many ears.

The only billboard I've ever known to advertise jobs in Iowa to Mexicans was for IBP a while back. It wasn't Marshalltown...it was for the Perry, Iowa IBP plant.

That billboard DOES exist...or at least it did. It read, "Need Money?"..."Apply Today!" or at least close to my Spanish translation skills allow:

Nevertheless, the seed we planted for our current problems with illegal immigrants and Swift, IBP, Tyson, etc...is already way beyond what we can control with a few raids.

The sentiment to report the anecdote is nice, but maybe not accurate in particular to Swift and/or Marshalltown.