As confirmed by the U. S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Texas on Wednesday, the federal investigators will not be going further with their probe into Pilgrim's Pride Corp's case of employing illegal immigrants, and no prosecutions will be made.

The chicken producer, on its part, has agreed to pay $4.5 Million to a law enforcement facility at the Department of the Treasury to improve how it screens prospective employees to make sure that they have proper permits required to work in the US.

In December 2007, a probe by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to arrest of 25 people who were allegedly involved in a scheme to bag jobs for illegal immigrants at Pilgrim's Pride units in East Texas.

Some of the people arrested were actually human resource employees at the firm.

As confirmed by Arnold Spencer, the federal prosecutor who was responsible for the case, the arrested people were prosecuted for "immigration violations or crimes stemming from document and identity fraud".

But now, all immigration related probes into the firm and its present and ex employees have been ceased. "This case demonstrates that the government and business, working together, can go a long way to resolving the issue of employment of illegal aliens", U. S. Attorney John M. Bales said.