Thread: Illegal alien roundup in Iowa

Illegal alien roundup in Iowa

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 7/27/2008 4:15:00 AM


Activists who oppose illegal immigration are staging a counter-protest today (July 27) in an Iowa town that was the site of the largest-ever roundup of illegal immigrants at a single location in the United States.



On May 11, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents descended on the eastern Iowa town of Postville and conducted an immigration raid on a plant run by Agriprocessors, Inc. Nearly 400 illegal workers were detained, most of whom came from Guatemala, but also included individuals from Mexico, Israel, and the Ukraine. But the raid created an uproar among church groups, Hispanic activists, and members of Congress who support illegal immigration, and they came to Postville to stage a huge rally to complain about how the raid disrupted the community and tore families apart.

Susan Tully is national field director with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). She points out that the illegal aliens were charged with aggravated identity theft, the unlawful use of a Social Security number, and other crimes. "They're being prosecuted for the felony they committed," Tully contends. "But not one of these members of Congress and not one of these churches is coming out and speaking about this correctly, by pointing out to the people, 'Oh yeah, by the way, they committed felonies' -- and people who commit felonies...break up their families every day of the week when they get prosecuted and sent to jail."

According to Tully, federal agents had another justification for conducting the raid. "The conditions inside this factory, this meat processing plant, were unbelievable," Tully explains. "There was a meth lab operating inside of the plant where the meat's being prepared for the people who are going to consume this kosher, supposed-clean product."

So Tully says FAIR will participate in Sunday's counter-protest in Postville.



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According to Tully, federal agents had another justification for conducting the raid. "The conditions inside this factory, this meat processing plant, were unbelievable," Tully explains. "There was a meth lab operating inside of the plant where the meat's being prepared for the people who are going to consume this kosher, supposed-clean product."

MSM nightly news actually reported on the Postville raids tonight! A little late but....

The story was called Immigrant Round-Up, I guess they can't remember the word ILLEGAL before the word immigrant.

Now the workers are complaining about how they were sexually harrassed, cheated out of money, and working in unsafe condition around knives. Fingers and hands are missing from some works now. Oh and how awful we all are for taking their jobs away? They just don't realise that some of us are against slavery along with with coming here illegally!!!

Now the workers are complaining about how they were sexually harrassed, cheated out of money, and working in unsafe condition around knives. Fingers and hands are missing from some works now. Oh and how awful we all are for taking their jobs away? They just don't realise that some of us are against slavery along with with coming here illegally!!!
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Those workers should be happy about the raid, the purpose which is to make sure they get home safely. No more harassment, cheating, unsafe work conditions which THEY accepted! No one forced them to work there, no one forced them to illegally sneak into the US. What ICE did was humanitarian, it freed them from the "greedy" employer who was "exploiting" them and make sure they are no longer exploited and will be reunited with their families in their own homelands.

How soon will it be before the ACLU and US Chamber of Commerce go after FAIR, only to be joined by LaRaza, LULAC, etc. The illegals, if they don't like their working conditions should sneak back across the border where they came from, instead of setting up a meth lab. Just shows they want to poison the American people so we will be too sick to put up much of a fight when they reclaim what they consider the lost states of Mexico. Perhaps you can tell I am a bit ticked off, to put it mildly.