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“For the one Poultry corow-out farh-volume operations that use cheap, nonunion labor The farmers don’t even own the chickens It’s the co else needed to care for them”

She paused, as if waiting for questions

“So, we’re talking big business?” I said

“Huge Poultry processors on the Delmarva Peninsula and in the South have virtually sewn up the market These businesses dominate the local economy Yet most of their workers aren’t locals”

“Really?”

She nodded “When the chickens are ready for slaughter, the company sends a crew of chicken catchers to round the plant Because the poultry industry no longer pays enough to attract local workers, they’ve corant workers—many of them Hispanic, many of them of

dubious legality, iration-wise”

She paused to let this sink in

“Are you telling al alien workers?”

“I’ that he does,” she said “But it has been known to happen Using undocumented workers cuts costs And we’ve becoal workers have been injured or killed due to poor working conditions”

I wondered if there was a point to this discussion and was about to ask, when she resumed her spiel

“Illegal workers are afraid to report health and safety violations, so it’s hard to prove anything against their eed in these practices But given the cutthroat competition—um, no pun intended—I suspect they may have done so”

“Where does Marshall Bower’s stepson fit into this picture?”

“According to roomed to take Bower’s place at the hel a great deal of authority over the poultry company with his stepson Theoretically, Billy Ray could step in at a moment’s notice and take over the whole company in the event of his stepfather’s demise”