Lockdown in Greeley (Swift immigration raids)

The Nation ^ | 2/9/07 | Marc Cooper

[lonewacko_dot_com]

...Working on the meatpacking floor can be a grueling, monotonous, dangerous routine, making thousands of the same cuts or swipes every day, and annual injury and illness rates might run 25 percent or more, but a union job with a wage of $12-$13 an hour, enough to support a family, seems worth the pain and risk.

At least until December 12, the holiday celebrating the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe. What materialized in front of the Swift gates that morning was more like a vision of hell. Shortly after 7 am a half-dozen buses rolled up with a small fleet of government vans, which unloaded dozens of heavily armed federal agents backed by riot-clad local police. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents sealed off all entrances and exits and formed a perimeter around the factory. Then others barged inside and started rounding up the whole workforce.

Some of the frightened workers jumped into cattle pens; others hid behind machinery or in closets. Those who tried to run were wrestled to the ground. Sworn statements by some workers allege that the ICE agents used chemical sprays to subdue those who didn't understand the orders barked at them in English. The plant's entire workforce was herded into the cafeteria and separated into two groups: those who claimed to be US citizens or legal residents and those who didn't...

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Marc Cooper was also involved in Minuteman Project smears like this 2005 article.

Please go to his site and leave a detailed, fact-based comment letting him know all the ways his current article is wrong.

[From One - Many]

amazing.....I'm speechless.....

[sheana]

I couldn't get past the 1st or 2nd paragraph. What a load of horse hockey!

[IronJack]

Formulaic leftist diatribe.

Let me just save these "journalists some time. Next occasion you have for writing one of these hand-wringing boo-hoo stories about deportations, just use the following template:

Poor

A) Pedro
B) Maria
C) Jose
D) Jesus Christo

is

A) working
B) babysitting her dozen helpless children
C) discovering a cure for cancer

when

A) thugs
B) goons
C)gestapo
D) roving hordes

from

A) the INS
B) government hit squads

show up at the

A) tiny but impeccable bungalow
B) business gates
C) lettuce patch

and haul away the terrified

A) mother of nine
B) hardworking man who was merely searching for a better life

amid

A) gasps of horror
B) howls of outrage
C) beatific calls for forgiveness for "they know not what they do".

[tumblindice]

Marc Cooper
Contributing Editor

Marc Cooper's career in journalism began in 1966, when he founded and edited an underground newspaper in high school in Los Angeles. After being expelled from the California State University system for his antiwar activities in 1971 by order of Governor Ronald Reagan, he signed on to work in the press office of Chilean President Salvador Allende. The 1973 military coup found Cooper working as Allende's translator for publication, and he left Chile as a UN-protected refugee eight days after the bloody takeover.

Consider the source: The Nation
Stinking hippies!

[Huntress]

By highlighting the identity-theft angle, DHS officials have cast into a sinister light a common practice, at worst a victimless crime. The undocumented workers caught up in the sweep weren't using other identities to run up someone's credit card bill or push someone into financial ruin but to collect their own paychecks, since they had used others' Social Security numbers to get on payroll.

Mr. Cooper, tell that to a "non-victim" who gets hit with a tax bill for wages he didn't collect or whose credit report shows an unpaid emergency room bill he didn't incur.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

Lets call it as it is....this writer is clearly a far-left flaming jackass.

[Huntress]

That's the best post on FR I've seen in a long time. Well done.

[Jazzman1]

I wrote to this lefty pos and here's what I said:
I just read a couple of paragraphs on your 'heart -rendering' story of illegals
being rounded up in Greeley. Were you there? From the sound of this lefty tripe you call journalism, you were right there seeing Americans rounding up law-breakers but it sounded like the Americans were the ones breaking the law (according to your biased blather). Has it ever occurred to you simians on the left that we have LAWS ON IMMIGRATION, and that these people DO NOT have constitutional rights and that they are in fact BREAKING OUR LAWS by being here illegally! AND, have any of you bed-wetting liberals ever been the victim of the crime wave perpetrated by these illegals? When you leftist pinkos are willing to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, then maybe you'll be heard by the hard-working AMericans and men & women in uniform who defend your right to print this liberal crap. Are you ready to chip in and pay more than your fair share for their medical and social services? Hmmm? Thought so. Why don’t you and your ilk move to France? Pieces of sh*t like you just might get the kind of attention you so desperately crave from them appeasing, surrender monkeys!

[stephenjohnbanker]

"Marc Cooper's career in journalism began in 1966, when he founded and edited an underground newspaper in high school in Los Angeles."

Stop in 1966........nuff said.

[stephenjohnbanker]

PURFICKT!

[AppyPappy]

The most amazing thing is that they managed to find some illegals. What a coincidence!!!

[traditional1]

"orders barked at them in English"

Illegal invaders can't understand English???

You can't make this stuff up, folks.....