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Agent Says He Supplied Tyson Immigrants By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - An undercover agent who posed as a smuggler testified Thursday that he delivered illegal immigrants directly to the manager of a Tyson Foods poultry plant to use as cheap labor. Prosecutors in the federal conspiracy trial also played secretly recorded tapes on which a man — whom they identified as the manager — says he needs hundreds more workers. The company and three officials are charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants to work on the production lines of the nation's largest meat processor. Tyson lawyers said in Wednesday's opening statements that any hiring of illegal immigrants was done by a few plant managers and was not known to executives at Tyson headquarters in Springdale, Ark. 'No one in senior management knew,' attorney Tom Green said. 'No member of senior management ever violated immigration laws or encouraged' anyone else to do so...
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