The Crider poultry-processing plant in Stillmore, Ga., lost two-thirds of its work force last year after a federal immigration agency raid.

Since then, Crider has scrambled to replace the employees. It has staged job fairs, boosted starting pay and even contracted for Georgia prison inmates to work on its production line. In an unusual experiment, Crider has also recruited a small group of Laotian [Hmong](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people “Wikipedia’s Hmong People Page”) refugees to move from Minnesota to Georgia, hoping they’ll start a new community.

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