Thread: Are immigration raids really doing what backers claim?

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Posted on Mon, May. 19, 2008
Are immigration raids really doing what backers claim?
By MARY SANCHEZ
The Kansas City Star
The federal government has been hard at work in Iowa lately.

In May, federal officials quietly leased a huge cattle complex in Waterloo, Iowa. Soon citizens were speculating about what might possibly be coming to the National Cattle Congress fairgrounds. A simulation exercise for federal officials to practice responding to an incident of mass terrorism?

Soon it was learned that the acreage was to be used as a giant holding facility. The stock would be human. On May 12, federal agents raided the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in the tiny nearby town of Postville, hauling in 390 immigrant workers, the majority from Guatemala. Most were accused of working illegally in the United States.

Postville, federal officials boasted, is the largest immigration raid in history — so far.

Clearly, such “operationsâ€

For those prone to deeper thinking, an obvious question presents itself: Are the raids really affecting the problem of illegal immigration?

It isn't about "affecting the problem of illegal immigration," it's about enforcing our written laws!

[quote]This is the best the government can do? The very officials who argued about how “brokenâ€

This article merely goes to show that the "chattering classes" will continue their chatter, no matter how inane it may be.

And there is a new influx to Greeley: hundreds of Somali refugees, who are legally allowed to live and work in the United States. The same situation is playing out in Grand Island, Neb., also the scene of a 2006 Swift raid. Hundreds of Somalis, many from Minnesota, are arriving to take the jobs once held by the Latino immigrants. But officials there also do not believe the illegal or legal Latino population has changed much.

Oh great! Now we have Somali refugees replacing the IA's!!! This is NOT good! This is NOT solving the problem...in fact, it's exacerbating the problem! There are probably 5 billion people around the globe who will gladly work for $12.00/hour at a meat packing plant in the US, but Americans were making $20/hour twenty years ago! Cheap labor is the death knell for American workers...the 'American Dream' just applies to foreigners now...and there is no shortage of workers from the third world populations! This is our American nightmare!