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Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, owner of Pilgrim’s Pride, is famous in Texas politics. No more so than for the day he showed up at the Texas Senate and passed out $10,000 checks to the pols for their legal (under state law) "campaign" slush funds. Not so legal is Bo’s hiring of (indeed, encouraging of) illegal Mexican nationals who engage in identity theft. Today, a bunch of them got busted –along with some Houston donut factory workers (who were provided free housing, no less) and the operators of a chain of (what else) Mexican restaurants in upstate New York.