Immigration raids target employers

It's about time!

MSNBC: With America engaged in a spirited debate over illegal immigration, the Homeland Security Department Wednesday launched a nationwide crackdown on employing illegal immigrations. And this time, the targets weren't just the workers themselves.

Police and federal agents moved in Wednesday morning at dozens of plants nationwide owned by a global manufacturing company called IFCO Systems, which supplies containers and pallets for shipping to some of the nation's biggest retailers.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested suspected illegal immigrants at a facility in Houston, a scene repeated today at 40 other IFCO locations.

But federal officials say the main targets of the operation—months in the planning—are company officials, not just workers.