[Reagan is King]

"Are they mad because I'm working?"

No, we're mad because you snuck into our country illegally.

"They don't go after employers. They don't put CEOs in jail," complained the Postville Community Schools superintendent, David Strudthoff, 51, who said the sudden incarceration of more than 10 percent of the town's population of 2,300 "is like a natural disaster -- only this one is manmade."

I agree that CEO's need to be locked up but perhaps he's just mad because the loss of students will cut his schools per student funding. It doesn't sound like he's happy the laws are finally being enforced.

workers fear a chain of empty apartments, falling home prices and business downturns. The main street, punctuated by a single blinking traffic signal, has been quiet; a Guatemalan restaurant temporarily closed;

Oh cry me a river, that's what happens when you build your town up around illegal aliens.

and the storekeeper next door reported a steady trickle of families quietly booking flights to Central America via Chicago.

I thought the raids didn't work? If they're booking flights home I guess it does!

[television is just wrong]

unemployment will become less than 4% when this is finished.

[oldbill]

and the storekeeper next door reported a steady trickle of families quietly booking flights to Central America via Chicago.

So much for the nonsense that you can't deport them all.

Make it difficult enough for them, and they'll go back on their own. And make it difficult on employers, and they won't come here in the first place.

Attrition by enforcement works!

[AuntB]

“. “Are they mad because I’m working?””

They really don’t get it do they?

Yo! Antonio, if 10 million US Citizens bounced over your border and demanded the Mexican government (at YOUR expense) raise their anchor babies, educate them, provide medical care and took your kids’ jobs, and kill 25 of you a day...would YOU be mad?

[org.whodat]

"I like my job. I like my work. I like it here in Iowa," said Escobedo, 38, an illegal immigrant from Yescas, Mexico, who has raised his three children for 11 years in Postville. "Are they mad because I'm working?"

Here this dirt bag is, stealing from the American tax payer and he wants to know if we are mad. You are damn right, now go the H home.

[org.whodat]

Current and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security

Never has so many been paid so much to do so little. That is the full description of home land security.

[zeestephen]

“.....and the storekeeper next door reported a steady trickle of families quietly booking flights to Central America via Chicago.”

I wish.

They’re booking flights here, to “Sanctuary Seattle.”

[Man50D]

Already posted.

Immigration Raid Jars a Small Town

[ml/nj]

I agree that CEO's need to be locked up

Please don't buy into such left-wing nonsense. Law enforcement is not the job of some guy who runs a meat packing factory, or other business. It is not his job to determine whether papers shown to him are counterfeit or not; or whether the social security numbers he is given by people he hires are legitimate. (I would agree that paying people "off the books" is an evasion of the law.) In today's AliceInWonderland environment though, he could probably be sued successfully for damages for not hiring someone who appears to be a Mexican if it would turn out that that person were here legally.

No. If the Law Enforcement folks know that the business owner has illegal aliens working for him, that means they know who the illegal aliens are. Let's deport them, and not criminalize businesses that need unskilled labor.

ML/NJ

[Cobra64]

"said Escobedo, 38, an illegal immigrant from Yescas, Mexico..."

Holy shi'ite Batman! The author referrred to the undocumented worker as an "illegal immigrant."

[traviskicks]

..the sudden incarceration of more than 10 percent of the town's population of 2,300 "is like a natural disaster -- only this one is manmade."

Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.

[traviskicks]

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

-Ronald Reagan

[kbennkc]

These little raids with air show are simply to fool the foolish into believing the government is doing something . Treat the employers with the same zeal for forfeiture that awaits meth and marijuana producers or even deer poachers .

[VR-21]

"Immigration Raid Jars Small Town," "Small Town Residents Living in Fear," "Raids Cause Panic in Small Town."

These sob-story articles appear like clockwork after any illegal employer gets raided. Like pushing buttons on a jukebox.

[BunnySlippers]

Be sure and check out the first thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017588/posts

[wastedyears]

But we don’t like you illegals here.

Bye

[Puddleglum]

But what did the find in the jars?

[gitmogrunt]

get me a box of tissues, this such a sad story.......

Oops....did I say Tissues?...I meant, get me a box of ammo.