An accurate headline would have been:
"Illegal Aliens' Criminal Activities Jar Small Town"
No emotional BS, just the facts.
The strategy is to cudgel business interests who aren't supporting the President's amnesty/open-borders plan, into falling into line by making present law an expensive concern.
Business is the "audience" the Administration works to please. Right now, the immigrant-importing, wage-breaking interests are disciplining the rest of the business community to get on board with The Program and help b*tch-slap the citizenry into accepting (effectively) unlimited immigration.
As Seven of Nine once said, "You will comply."
So then the majority were no arrested because they committed a crime by coming here without papers, our govt is more interested because these criminals dealt with the I.R.S. in an illegal manner.
The I.R.S. got Caopnne too.
Funny, Mexicans, the new WOPs.
Without papers.
And last month, the company lost a federal appellate court battle over whether it could ignore a vote by workers at its Brooklyn distribution center to unionize, on grounds that those in favor were illegal immigrants and not entitled to federal labor protections.
Now, ain't that brazen?
The affidavit cited unnamed sources who alleged that some company supervisors employed 15-year-olds, helped cash checks for workers with fake documents, and pressured workers without documents to purchase vehicles and register them in other names.In addition, the affidavit alleged that company supervisors ignored a report of a methamphetamine drug lab operating in the plant. It also cited a case in which a supervisor blindfolded a Guatemalan worker and allegedly struck him with a meat hook, without serious injury.
If this doesn't call for a major investigation of the company, what would?
The union organizer did raise a valid point - with the illegals deported so are the witnesses against the supervisors.
An illegal said: “Are they mad because I’m working?”
No, we’re mad that YOU’RE HERE ILLEGALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
bttt
An accurate headline would have been:
"Illegal Aliens' Criminal Activities Jar Small Town"
No emotional BS, just the facts.
Good Deal !
Boo-friggin-hoo.
Not the most upstanding company:
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Agriprocessors is the corporate identity of a slaughterhouse and meat-packaging factory that is in an incorporated area of Postville, Iowa best known as a facility for the glatt kosher processing of cattle, as well as chicken, turkey, duck, lamb and veal.[1]. It is the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the United States [1].
It was founded by Aaron Rubashkin. Rubashkin is regarded as an innovator in the kosher meat industry, bringing modern industrial methods to what has historically been a small, almost boutique craft[2]. Two-thirds of its output, however, is non-kosher and is marketed under the brand Iowa Best Beef[3]. Its kosher products are marketed under the brand names Aaron’s Best and Rubashkins. The current CEO is the founder’s son Sholom Rubashkin and another son, Heshy Rubashkin is also active in the organization.
Rubashkin purchased the meat packing facility in 1987.[4]
Agriprocessors was subjected to serious charges of using inhumane methods of slaughter, of being unsanitary, of maintaining an unsafe work environment and of mistreating its employees. All of this was propelled by a secret video[5] released by PETA, leading to further attention. PETA ineffectively picketed the Allamakee County District Attorney to start an investigation[6], something that received more coverage elsewhere than locally.
Temple Grandin, recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the design of cattle containment and slaughter, is said to have been appalled at what she saw on the tape. Jewish commentators stated, based on what was seen on the tape, that the practices violated Jewish law, and thus the products’ kosherness were suspect.[7]. After the initial controversy, however, audits by competent private firms as well as governmental agencies passed favorably on Agriprocessors’ practices. In particular, Temple Grandin toured the facility on June 27, 2006, and by Agriprocessors own statement, she is stated to have approved of everything she saw[8][9].
In 2000 the book Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America was written about the sometimes uneasy relationship between the plant and the local community.
[edit] Recent developments
In a news release dated January 23, 2007, 2,700 pounds of frankfurters offered for sale in the Northeast were voluntarily recalled as having been under-processed[10]. In September 2005, the company’s employees voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. When the company refused to bargain, the union filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. The company claimed that most of those who voted are undocumented aliens, arguing that undocumented aliens are prohibited from unionizing because they do not qualify as “employees” protected by the National Labor Relations Act. “Because the company’s argument ignores both the Act’s plain language and binding Supreme Court precedent,” the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a case argued October 19, 2007 and Decided January 4, 2008, denied the company’s petition for review. [11].
[edit] Pollution
On August 31, 2006. Agriprocessors signed a consent decree where they essentially admitted discharging untreated sewage into the Postville system, in violation of Federal and Iowa State law and paid a $600,000 fine for violating waste-water regulations[12][13][14]
Starting in 2004, city authorities started an investigation against Agriprocessors due to complaints from local residents that they routinely deposited untreated effluence into local rivers in breach of regulations. On August 31, 2006. Agriprocessors signed a consent decree[15] and paid a $600,000 fine for violating waste-water regulations.[16]
[edit] Federal immigration raid
On the 12 May 2008 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (”ICE”) staged a raid on the plant which was described as the largest in the history of the United States. Federal authorities arrested hundreds of illegal immigrant workers during the raid. ICE spokesman Tim Counts said that “The raid was aimed at seeking evidence of identity theft, stolen Social Security numbers and for people who are in the country illegally” [2]. Federal immigration authorities also asserted that “a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the slaughterhouse” and that “employees carried weapons to work” [3].
The owners need to go to jail. They don’t even have to be charged with harboring illegals. Apparently there are plenty of other charges to muss them up. It does no good to deport the illegals to their home country. Better to deport them to some island in the Pacific.
Once all the illegals are deported the US should seize the plant and all assets and sell it to the highest bidder.
In their own stupid way the WaPo does have a point. They should have had every manager at the plant doing the perp walk on national TV, that would give business owners something to think about. Instead they caught a few small fish that will be replaced with other small fish in a matter of days.
They also uncovered a meth lab at the facility, but that is rarely mentioned in news accounts.
If ICE wanted to “put pressure” on the meatpackers they could simply have stationed a lone agent at the gate, checking ID’s, and kept him there for several months, after telling the company of their plans several weeks in advance.
The end result would have been the same—with a lot less expense for the taxpayers—and a lot less drama all around.