Posted on 12/19/2006 3:43:37 PM PST by Rakkasan1
They came to tell the stories they say aren't being told. In the wake of last Tuesday's raids at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Worthington, Minn., and five other states, a group of about 200 people gathered Monday afternoon outside the St. Paul offices of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman to condemn the federal action and demand immigration reform. After a 40-minute rally, a smaller group walked into the Republican senator's office and read stories about families affected by the Minnesota roundup of more than 200 workers on alleged immigration violations. "One woman is pregnant and is terrified to leave her home. She'll only communicate by telephone," said Patrick Leet, an activist who collected stories last weekend in Worthington. "She's psychologically devastated." The stories were told to Coleman's staff members; rally organizers were informed that the senator is out of the country. A few of the people visiting the office said the storytelling was necessary because the government is using accusations of identity theft as an excuse to round up undocumented workers.
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Fine the union along with Swift for being useful idiots.
OK so how did they get hired?
From what I've read, not one of these poor "victims" was arrested for working here illegally. They were arrested for IDENTITY THEFT. The real victims are the people who had their identities stolen. I'm sure the reporter could find one or more real victims to interview with a reasonable effort.
After a 40-minute rally, a smaller group walked into the Republican senator's office and read stories about families affected by the Minnesota roundup of more than 200 workers on alleged immigration violations.
Here's another story for you, you puling pieces of puke.
Man's ID Theft Linked To Raids
Workers used his information in 3 different states.A former Landry's busboy is bucking Uncle Sam, who wants a cut of $75,790 earned by employees at three national meat processing companies using Steven De Leon Aumada's identification. Aumada, 21, says he feels "skinned and filleted" after realizing he might be trapped in the web of worker deceit that led immigration officials to raid six Swift & Co. meat processing plants Tuesday in six states, according to officials.
The Internal Revenue Service notified Aumada in July that he owed $19,998 in income taxes, penalties and interest for work reported in his name and Social Security number by Swift & Co. in Greeley, Colo., Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. in Springdale, Ark., and National Beef Packing Company LLC in Liberal, Kan.
SNIP
Knowledge of the recent raid at the Swift plants has prompted identity theft victim responses nationwide.
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Man's ID theft linked to raids
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754425/posts
prediction: Norm will "question the timing" as to being mean to Jewish Illegal Aliens during their holiday.
Sure did.
Here is yet again a subliminal charge of racism; it's racism to arrest people who are in fact criminals for the mere fact of being here.
Undocumented workers?.....I hate that term, what is it?......the dog ate your green card?
Haha! The dog age their greencard...
I'll be using that one!
Slightly off topic, but everyone should do a routine credit check to see if anyone is using your SS number and/or name. Go to https://www.annualcreditreport.com to get a credit check from each of the 3 reporting agencies each year.
This is the site that is featured at http://www.ftc.gov and is the only 'official' site sponsored by the 3 reporting agencies. (There are other sites which offer free credit reporting - I am guessing they likely want to charge you for your free info, sell you something else, or are scams to get you to input your personal information. To be safe you may even want to start at the ftc.gov site.)
You can do all 3 at once or spread them throughout the year. I recently did mine and found that my info was comingled with that of several relatives (who fortunately aren't deadbeats:)), and that there were still cards listed which I thought I had closed long ago. These errors were resolved within a day.
Where were the protesters and the Church when the original workers and families were displaced by cheap labor in the first place?
Meatpacking jobs used to pay very well - not the greatest job in the world I suppose, but enough for people to raise their family and buy a house, etc. Illegal labor - regardless of the emotional heart-tugging stories meant to cloud the issue - has driven wages down, no way around it.
Main Entry: 1il·le·gal
Pronunciation: (")i(l)-'lE-g&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle
French illegal, from Medieval Latin illegalis, from Latin in- + legalis legal
: not according to or authorized by law : UNLAWFUL, ILLICIT; also : not sanctioned by official rules (as of a game)
thanks. the 3 major credit bureaus allow 1 free report per year. just do one from each every 4 months---all free.
It's possible you want to leave those cards open, even if you don't use them. One of the factors in a good credit rating is the length of time one has had the card. Second, cancelling a card I'm told shows up as something like "closed at holders request" which is a negative...
I work construction, and let me tell you, from my vantage point, that nonsense about illegals doing jobs others won't is baloney. I see masons, carpenters, bricklayers, electricians; all of which are fairly well paying jobs.
The two valid but old (and closed) ones were for retailers. The ones actually held by relatives were MC and VISAs. The only negative comment on my credit report was that I had too *MANY* cards. Hopefully since I straightened out the erroneous info this will go away.
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