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Undocumented meatpackers fear raids
Yahoo News ^
| April 14, 2007
| Roxana Hegeman, AP
Posted on 04/14/2007 5:56:56 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast
DODGE CITY, Kan. - Frightened by raids last year at six Swift & Co. plants, illegal immigrants in the nation's meatpacking towns are preparing for their possible arrest.
For years, immigrant rights groups had been confident the meatpacking giants were so powerful immigration agents would never raid them. But since the Dec. 12 sweeps at Swift plants in six states, immigrant advocacy groups have been holding workshops, teaching undocumented workers how to prepare for their arrests by doing such things as drawing up legal documents so someone could care for their children and handle their financial affairs.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; immigration; meatpackers
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To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
“undocumented meat packers” Is that what we are calling them now. We used to call them sissies.
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:03:59 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Undocumented meatpackers fear raids
As well they should.
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:04:17 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: BallyBill
We could call them something else but then we’d get sent to rehab.
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:04:56 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(Socialism is NOT an American value.)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Those who violate the laws of the USA, should be afraid, very afraid of getting caught. If they are so concerned about their children, then why in the hell would an illegal violate the laws of the US, and put their children in that kind of a position?
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:05:35 PM PDT
by
paratrooper82
(82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky")
To: BallyBill
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:06:03 PM PDT
by
pointsal
(q)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Good! Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
The law enforcers are coming! And they mean to enforce the law on the lawbreakers!
Things would really be so much easier if illegal aliens were motivated to return home, or to turn themselves in and try to become citizens the legal way.
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:16:54 PM PDT
by
pillut48
(CJ in TX --Bible Thumper and Proud! RUN, FRED, RUN!!!)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
I was in Dodge City last summer. It was an eye opener. There are more signs in Spanish than English, and I felt like a foreigner.
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:19:03 PM PDT
by
SoDak
To: SoDak
The illegals need to get out of Dodge lol.
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:19:40 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(Socialism is NOT an American value.)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Has anyone ever seen any article posted anywhere at any time in any universe regarding any other lawbreaker fearing arrest???
Why are they portrayed with so much more sympathy?
Don't answer - I already know why.
To: Lizavetta
Tis enough to make one stop eating beef. I smell the ACLU somewhere in this story.
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Undocumented meatpackers fear raids It would be better if the employers were afraid of the raids, maybe they wouldn't have so many illegal employees.
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
But since the Dec. 12 sweeps at Swift plants in six states, immigrant advocacy groups have been holding workshops, teaching undocumented workers how to prepare for their arrests by doing such things as drawing up legal documents so someone could care for their children and handle their financial affairs.The advocacy groups could do the criminal aliens a real favor and tell them the best way to go home where they belong.
Criminal aliens OUTTA MY COUNTRY!!!!!!
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posted on
04/14/2007 6:55:49 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(A living, breathing example of the Peter Principle. Oh, forgetful, too :)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
illegal immigrants in the nation's meatpacking towns are preparing for their possible arrest.If we had an attorney general that was better than reno, it would be the owners of these plant that would fear arrest.
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posted on
04/14/2007 7:03:39 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
For years, immigrant rights groups had been confident the meatpacking giants were so powerful immigration agents would never raid them.Read: they were confident that Tyson and others were doing all the payoffs needed.
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posted on
04/14/2007 7:04:07 PM PDT
by
ikka
To: org.whodat
If we had an attorney general that was better than reno, it would be the owners of these plant that would fear arrest.If we had a President who cared about upholding his Constitutional oath, we might not be in this mess. (And I voted for him twice.)
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posted on
04/14/2007 8:54:04 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: ikka
Read: they were confident that Tyson and others were doing all the payoffs needed.
truth bump
To: OnRightOnLeftCoast
Undocumented meat packers. Is that the politically correct term for gay illegal aliens?
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posted on
04/14/2007 9:01:14 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Truth shall set you free))))
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
04/14/2007 9:03:04 PM PDT
by
Ieatfrijoles
(Incinerate Riyadh Now.(Request shot splash))
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
04/14/2007 9:03:34 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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