Thread: Push needed for immigration reform

Push needed for immigration reform


By: Gebe Martinez
August 6, 2008 05:11 AM EST

The physical and emotional pain of dozens of immigrants and their children was palpable recently when a congressional delegation walked into a room at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church in Postville, Iowa.

The town still suffers almost three months after 389 immigrants were arrested at a local meat processing plant and then detained at a cattle exhibit hall. At this meeting with three members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, their stories of inhumane treatment at work and legal injustices after the arrests came tumbling out.

There was a 16-year-old who worked on the kill floor of the plant — he was under the legal age limit for the job — who labored 17-hour shifts, six days a week, without overtime. There was a man who had lost his hand. There were women who were sexually exploited if they wanted a shift change.

In May, hundreds of federal agents stormed into the Agriprocessors Inc. plant, rounded up workers like cattle and chuted them through a pre-scripted legal process that cut off their legal rights to defend themselves against unusually harsh felony “aggravated identity theftâ€

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Comment I posted:

Gestapo Agents? Gutierrez is calling ICE officers conducting their official duty Gestapo Agents? Outrageous. Gutierrez is a U.S. Congressman (and one of the loud mouthed leaders of the ethno-supremacist Hispanic Caucus) and he is calling ICE Gestapo Agents. Of course he is a racist, ethno-centric anarchist who is "La Raza" to his filthy core and feels it is perfectly fine that we have 20 million illegal invaders here, mostly from Mexico operating illictly. He wants them all awarded citizenship and wants all immigration raids to stop immediately so as to not disrupt the illegal operation of all the illegal aliens here now. Oh, yeah...he also doesn't want the fence built or any real enforcement.

I never knew that Politico had writers that were so stupid… The illegals need to go back to their country of origin....we are not responsible for the care and feeing of 12-40 illegals and their "anchor babies".

We don't need to put into effect any Amnesty programs...we need to enforce our existing laws....revise the 14 amendment so that we have no more “anchor babiesâ€

Comment I posted:

Gutierrez asked chidingly "How many more Postvilles do we have to have?? Well, Cargill, Tyson, Excel, and Toll Brothers would be a good start. Actually, go to http://www.wehirealiens.com/ and take your pick.