Thread: {Sob}297 Iowa meat packers are railroaded to jail

Vol. 72/No. 23 June 9, 2008


297 Iowa meat packers are railroaded to jail
Convicted on ‘identity theft’ charges
(lead article)

BY SETH GALINSKY
DES MOINES—Of the 389 immigrant workers arrested as part of the May 12 raid at Agriprocessors Inc., in Postville, Iowa, 297 were sentenced on federal felony charges at the end of May. Most were charged with using false documentation or with “false useâ€

[quote]McCauley commented on the women who after the raid marched in protest in Waterloo May 18. “I saw some of the new Rosa Parks at the demonstration saying we are not criminals, we have a right to work and to support our children,â€

[quote][b]“This is an injustice,â€

[quote]Hundreds of people from Iowa and the region showed their solidarity with the workers affected by the raid by sending money and other aid, said Sister Mary McCauley, of St. Bridget’s Catholic Church in Postville.

The raid and the sentences are unjust, McCauley said. [b]“The real injustice is the way our people were treated like property at Agriprocessors, the slave-like conditions at work.â€

Oh, let them all go taking a flying leap. First there were complaints about those caught in raids, etc. not being processed quickly enough. Now ICE ensures that they are processed quickly and that's cause for an uproar merely because ICE cut off all of the usual tactics meant to obstruct justice.

As for as these people go, ICE is damned if they do or don't, but so what? Enforcement of our laws is the issue here, not what IAs and their advocates, or attorneys looking to make a bundle, want or don't want.


[b]“I don’t know what the charges are against me or when the hearing will take place,â€

[quote]“This is an injustice,â€

azwreath

Well done you are in rare form today

[color=brown]A front page article in the Des Moines Register featured Yesenia Cordero and Henry López. Cordero, 16, is from Mexico. Her husband López, 18, is from Guatemala. They have a one-year-old daughter. López is in jail; Cordero is “freeâ€

[quote="grandmasmad"][color=brown]A front page article in the Des Moines Register featured Yesenia Cordero and Henry López. Cordero, 16, is from Mexico. Her husband López, 18, is from Guatemala. They have a one-year-old daughter. López is in jail; Cordero is “freeâ€

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/app...#pluckcomments

Her mother, now also wearing an electronic monitor, wanted her children to grow up in America, to get an American education.

Looks like she got an education in sex!