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In Postville, Iowa, a town that likely none of us had heard of until just now, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials hit Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher meat processing plant, in May of this year- arresting about 400 people.
Today the families of those 400 plant employees went to Congress to make their voices heard- saying that the raid was handled violently and inhumanely, and that rather than punishing the hundreds of people who just wanted to work, and the hundreds more affected by their arrests, the focus on punishment should be on the plant itself.
Even the Mayor of Postville has stepped up to say that all the raid succeeded in was tearing apart the community.
As of the moment the Congressional panel and the ICE have not returned calls placed by the associated press, but depending on the judgement that falls after this raid, the course for all other immigration issues could be changed from here out.
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July 28th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Well, they can belly-ache all they want. But those protesting the ICE raid didn't have to live around the Mexicans. They play loud music, disrespect Americans and their neighbors, raise crime rates, take over welfare, and housing and medical services. They are like locusts, they consume everything in their path. If you do not have to live in an apartment building where they live, then you wouldn't understand. I've had my cat attacked, had my life threatened and my door nearly kicked in just because I reported them for playing loud music. When you have to live beneath these people then you can talk, but until then, let the law do its job.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
If you don't mind my asking Kayci, where do you live?
As far as this particular community, the raid, and the immigrant worker situation as a whole- I think the thing that really needs to looked at is not so much the immigrants themselves, but the people hiring them. If there were no jobs for them to work, then they wouldn't come. The businesses hiring should probably be the ones hit with the legal repercusions.
That's just my take on the whole raid issue.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Well, they can belly-ache all they want. But those protesting the ICE raid didn’t have to live around the Mexicans. They play loud music, disrespect Americans and their neighbors, raise crime rates, take over welfare, and housing and medical services. They are like locusts, they consume everything in their path. If you do not have to live in an apartment building where they live, then you wouldn’t understand. I’ve had my cat attacked, had my life threatened and my door nearly kicked in just because I reported them for playing loud music. When you have to live beneath these people then you can talk, but until then, let the law do its job.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
If you don’t mind my asking Kayci, where do you live?
As far as this particular community, the raid, and the immigrant worker situation as a whole- I think the thing that really needs to looked at is not so much the immigrants themselves, but the people hiring them. If there were no jobs for them to work, then they wouldn’t come. The businesses hiring should probably be the ones hit with the legal repercusions.
That’s just my take on the whole raid issue.