I do like this purple prose. I can’t help but wonder if the author got her start ghost-writing cheap westerns. For a moment there I thought it was supposed to be Apaches, Comancheros, or Bloody Bill Anderson’s raiders descending upon our unsuspecting town...
I wonder at whether and to what extent the idyllic picture of this burg is tinted and tilted. Other depictions of agriprocessor towns like these have the exploited, underpaid illegals relegated to trailer parks, with relations between them and the townies as somewhat to the south of lovey-dovey.
This article depicts them as all as noble, salt-of-the-earth types and their children as all bright-eyed, studious, with high aspirations, whereas other articles have illegals’ children more oriented towards underclass values and livin’ the Vida Loca. No mention of MS-13 problems here.
At the same time, I’m as mad as they are. If ICE really meant to clean out the illegals all they had to do was inform Agriprocessors several months in advance that they would be coming to make a routine inspection but afterward, that they would be keeping agents at the front gate, checking IDs every day for the indefinite future. The illegals would have been bloodlessly turfed out with the only opprobrium directed at the employer. This is still just for show, but it is interesting to see that the administration really is NOT afraid of pumped-up Liberal media/Latino establishment outrage after all. Certainly not so much as they are of the meatpackers and their “K” street connections.
Either way, I hope Postville will learn to like living under sharia, if these Somalis are like their Minneapolis brethren.
It is so cliche that, if you wrote it as a work of fiction, you would be pilloried by the PC police.
I mean, the article features the Hassidic Mafia, corrupt rabbis, saintly immagrants who want to work hard and get ahead, ...
IOW, it made me LOL.