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But mice are different from people; they aren't perfect laboratory stand-ins. They don't age precisely the way people do, for example. They don't have monthly menstrual cycles, and their neurological and immune systems differ in important ways. Much better to have a more closely related animal...
In fact, relatively few illegal immigrants are rounded up at workplaces these days. With the economy booming--at least until very recently--and with unemployment down, the motivation for raids has declined; undocumented workers are performing tasks no one else will take on. The Immigration and Naturalization Service spends most...
And when the INS does try to enforce the law in the workplace, it can incur powerful opposition. Take Operation Vanguard, launched in September 1998 to target the undocumented workers on whom the Nebraska meat-packing industry relies. The agency subpoenaed the records of slaughterhouses and informed the factories that...
Illegal workers, predictably, fled before the INS showed up, and factory owners, facing a labor shortage, squawked. With ranchers claiming a loss to the state's economy of $20 million over eight months, local politicians attacked the operation, and the INS backed down. A task force appointed by Governor Mike...
The threat of an INS bust has become a weapon in the arsenal of antiunion employers. When undocumented Latina chambermaids at the Holiday Inn Express in Minneapolis, Minn., voted to join the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union last year, management called in the INS, and they were hauled off...