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Swift Raids Unacceptable [Iowa upset that illegal aliens were arrested]
Immigration Daily ^ | 12/20/2006 | JENNIFER JACOBS

Posted on 12/21/2006 6:30:27 AM PST by doc30

According to a Des Moines Register news story, "In a blunt and stinging letter, the governor and the top officer of the Iowa National Guard on Tuesday called federal immigration officials' actions in the Swift raids "completely unacceptable," saying agents undermined the public's trust in government, potentially jeopardized the safety of law enforcement personnel in Iowa and could have compromised undercover operations." For the full story, see here.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alien; alieninvasion; aliens; crimigration; enforcethelaws; identitythieves; illegal; immigrantlist; immigration; iowa
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To: Ben Ficklin

"Lots of smoke, but not much fire."


More like smoke and mirrors. Until this happens 24/7 (which it could) I'm not buying it.


21 posted on 12/21/2006 1:50:58 PM PST by wolfcreek (Please Lord, May I be, one who sees what's in front of me.)
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To: doc30

22 posted on 12/21/2006 6:44:50 PM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Iowa Granny
The latest this morning is state law enforcement is whining that their own undercover investigation was impaired by the Feds.

So the state "investigation" was plodding along, getting milked for years worth of taxpayer funded paychecks when ICE showed up and did their job. Just what was a State agency going to do? (or has ever done?). Sound like whining over the gravy train getting defunded cause the feds beat them to it.

23 posted on 12/22/2006 4:31:26 AM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, MMP AZ 2005, TxMMP El Paso Oct+April 2006 TxMMP Laredo - El Paso)
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To: doc30
Unacceptable? Not to these folks.

Workers Line Up To Fill Meat-Processing Plant Vacancies After Raids

Gee, looks like Americans want those jobs after all....

24 posted on 12/22/2006 4:35:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: doc30
I'm upsetbecause Swift & Co executives weren't arrested.

25 posted on 12/22/2006 4:46:52 AM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell

Can't arrest the executives. Under the current law, they used the Basic Pilot program and found that the applicant's name and SSN numbers matched. That is sufficeint to prove the company did not knowingly hire illegals. IMHO, the law needs to be changed.


26 posted on 12/22/2006 5:15:39 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30

This Iowan isn't upset by the arrests, but I've heard that they had a 'heads-up' that this was coming and hundreds avoided getting caught and that's upsetting!
I also recall something about Vilsak making Iowa more easily accessable to what amounts to illegals a few years back too...any other Iowans remember any of the details??


27 posted on 12/22/2006 10:47:21 PM PST by FlashBack (W)
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