Iowa immigration raid largest ever in U.S.

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  1. cadcruzer

    cadcruzer Sailing the 8 seas

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    Nearly 400 were arrested at the kosher meatpacking plant

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24583537

    excerpt.
    POSTVILLE, Iowa - A raid at a northeastern Iowa meat processing plant this week was the largest in U.S. history, federal authorities said. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 390 people were arrested on immigration charges after Monday’s raid at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville. The facility is the world’s largest kosher meatpacking plant.

    The raid was aimed at seeking evidence of identity theft, stolen Social Security numbers and people who are in the country illegally.



    Immigration raid at federal courthouse in Richmond

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24509419/

    Still more

    Hundreds Arrested In Poultry Plant Immigration Raid

    excerpt,
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24180812/
     
  2. yarapario

    yarapario Village Elder

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    Another American disgrace brought to us by bushco. It seems people have a need to hate and the latest target is Brown people under the guise of controlling illegal immigration.
     
  3. hippiehillbilly

    hippiehillbilly the old asshole

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    when pilgrims pride was raided last month it was 3 days after they announced that they were cutting production by 5%,they rounded up a total of i think 600 from there plants.. guess what percentage of there workforce that was??
    you guessed close.. 4%

    dont believe me? look it up.

    its all a scam,the economy iss in the shitter the illegals gotta go home till things pick up..
     
  4. yarapario

    yarapario Village Elder

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    Yeah the economy is truely trashed...I don't know that sending illegals home will make much difference though. The thing that gets me is that the wardrums of "Illegals" spills over onto everyone who is Brown. Makes me think it's more of a distraction from real issues than any attempt to help the American economy. Seems pretty Roveian to me.
     
  5. zihger

    zihger Senior Member

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    I think the “round ups” or “raids” are just a show..

    If they really wanted to stop illegal immigration they would just give the employers major fines or shut down their companies and make it un profitable to hire them and with no work = no money and most of the illegal immigrants have no reason to stay in the U.S.

    They are letting it happen they could stop it all in months if they wanted to, petty raid like the ones they put on the news and flash around are such a small percentage of the illegal immigrants.

    They are bragging about 399 workers here and 600 there, haha what a joke there is something like 8 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. like a few hundred is going to do anything.

    The guys on the top of the pyramid are raking in money off the cheap labor they don’t want it to stop.
     
  6. MaximusXXX

    MaximusXXX Senior Member

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    Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute here!

    Kosher meat plant?

    Those Jews are at it again!!! [​IMG]

    LOL, couldn't resist.

    But seriously cheap labor is always going to exist, I however prefer when that cheap labor is OUTSIDE my country.

    The U.S. doesn't need any more poor people, neither does Canada.

    There needs to be more of these raids.
     
  7. MaximusXXX

    MaximusXXX Senior Member

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    Of course, but I doubt the government likes having cheap labor camps within their country, it's always better to do it in 3rd World or even in 2nd World ( China ).

    These raids don't do anything and they're just a show like you said.

    Crime rates are always associated with poverty so I think it would just be more quicker to go into impoverished ghettos and have a good ol massacre, the only problem is you might just kill a few innocent people who moved in legally but wanted to stay with their own racial group.

    It's very difficult to divide people from people, especially when the people you want to round up don't have proper identification or false identification you don't know and then you have to check this and that and, wow, takes too much time and money.
     
  8. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Maybe that's the out come they want to move the production to China, where they can keep the overhead and quality down without being discovered.
     
  9. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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    i am an illegal alien

    as far as i can tell the invasion of north america by europeans was an illegal act of aggression

    [by modern definitions at least]

    funny that the 'illegal aliens' of today include the bloodlines of those illegally invaded 500 years ago

    [
     
  10. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    So as an illegal alien who do you owe your allegiance to?
     
  11. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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    indians

    they let me stay, and have even been gracious about it

    [that includes indians from south of the gadsen purchase]
     
  12. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Illegal from where?
     
  13. Piney

    Piney Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I would like to see less cars on the roads, less construction, less powerplants

    less conversion of wild areas into suburbs.

    This is why I do not support open borders, People can and do come here legally.
    We do have limits on immigration.

    We are going to have to build a new round of sewage treatment and water treatment plans perhaps some new highways. more schools. In the end it will all be fine.

    Please don't tell me you support open borders but are against construction of the facilities required by the new residents.
     
  14. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Mexico has as many natural resources as the US does, why do their people have to seek employment here? Someone have an answer to that?
     
  15. hippiehillbilly

    hippiehillbilly the old asshole

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    higher wages..

    i can guarantee you that if i was lured with the offer of 10 to 20 times the wages i earn here in a relatively stable country i would pay someone a few grand to sneak me in and take my chances on getting caught..
    think about it,,if ya make it a year or two you can go back home and live like a king for 10.
    if ya make it ten your rich beyond your wildest dreams back home..

    sadly by the time many have there dream home built and there wealth guaranteed down there,they have already started a family up here so it becomes much harder to justify going home unless caught and deported..

    its really not that hard to understand.. of course i work with the folks on a daily basis..
    mighty fine people they are...
     
  16. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    So no citizen of Mexico wants to make it's country favourable to it's own citizens? Should the USA be responsible for the prosperity of country that can't look after it's own citizens?
     
  17. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    I work with them also, but what I don't understand is that they don't wish to reform their own country, but they are always willing to protest the ills of the US.
     
  18. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    No new Benito Juarez...why not?
     
  19. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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  20. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Which justifies what, abandoning their families or explaining that they feel no real national afiliation?
     
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