Poultry plants are raided in the latest federal crackdown on illegal-immigrant labor

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A separate sweep also took place and authorities arrested dozens of workers at a doughnut factory in Houston. In upstate New York operators of a Mexican restaurant chain were also arrested.

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. is a Texas-based company and the nation's largest chicken producer. The people who were arrested at their Pittsburgh, P.A. location were charged with identity theft, document fraud and immigration violations. The company worked with ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, before the raids took place, according to company spokesman Ray Atkinson. Atkinson said that they knew in advance that the raids were going to take place and they fully cooperated.

There has been no civil or criminal charges filed against Pilgrim's Pride, which has over 50,000 employees and has dozens of facilities across the South and Mexico and Puerto Rico.

More than 250 workers were arrested and Atkinson told sources that all of the employees who were arrested have been fired and any other employee who is found to have engaged in similar acts will also be fired.

More than 40 people were arrested on charges of false use of Social Security numbers and more than 100 people were arrested on immigration violations but they might face charges related to identity theft.

More than 25 people will face charges of identity theft or document fraud charges in Fla and more than 20 people were arrested in Ark., om federal warrants for alleged identity theft or document fraud.

This is not the company's first time in trouble because back in January 2007 a manager at the De Queen plant was arrested for allegedly renting identification documents for more than $700 to get a job there.

The company said that they fire employees who can't clear up discrepancies in their documentation because that is their policy.

Someone in the company must have known or at least had a clue that some of these people were working there illegally. After the first run in with the law back in 2007 one would think that the company would look at people or screen them a lot closer.