Posted on 01/28/2011 3:35:20 PM PST by moonshinner_09
They may not burst into workplaces wielding guns and dogs, but the effects are no less devastating.
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) is increasing immigration controls that have a serious impact on immigrants in the workplace using a different—and quieter—tactic. Recently, eight workers were arrested after they chained themselves together in an act of civil disobedience inside a Chiplotle Mexican Grill restaurant in Minneapolis.
The action was part of a protest over the firing of between 350 to 700 immigrant workers from the restaurant chain’s 50 restaurants without notice in December. The workers were dismissed after ICE perused I-9 forms. Chipotle says each worker was given a chance to show documentation, and all dismissed employees were paid "promptly."
The strategy of “silent raids" avoids dramatic workplace raids, but still tightens the screw on workers. If paperwork is not in order, ICE demands that the employer fire the employee. Last year ICE conducted more than 2,200 I-9 audits. (There were 1,400 in 2009.)
In Los Angeles, ICE audits caused the layoffs of 253 workers at Overhill Farms. As reported on this website, American Apparel laid off 1,800 workers in 2009, many of whom had worked for the company for many years. ABM Janitorial company laid off 1,200 workers and SEIU members in Minneapolis, and Seattle Building Maintenance fired over 100 janitorial workers, they too were all SEIU members.
“Injustice for All,” a report issued by Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network, (a project of the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights; NNIRR), states that these silent raids ignore workplace abuses and allow employers off the hook as long as they rid themselves of the undocumented workers.
(Excerpt) Read more at inthesetimes.com ...
“I hope you don’t want to shoot for bounty some poor peon who snuck over the border to try to feed his kids.”
I sure as hell do!!!!
To: moonshinner_09
“Nobody could live in this country from making $ 2,00 an hour and live in Calif at the same time afford food,rent,power bill, etc,etc”
That’s why you’ll find ‘em piled 100 deep in a rental shotgun shack. Of course, once they’re in the community there are other ways of augmenting their income....
15 posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 7:27:28 PM by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
You are so right, I caught one stealing the license plate off my car.
You mean ILLEGAL aliens.
Posting to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse.
Jimmy Clyde was famous for that.
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