[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

No failure involved...

Sounds like the policy is working...

ICE is Nice in Postville, IA...

[FlyVet]

The author Raquel Aldana never wonders why these corrupt Mexican, Guatamalan, and other South American governments drive their own people away, and toward the United States.

Perchance they could reform their ways, so that their own people wouldn't have to run away from them by the tens of millions?

No?

Don't they have any culpability?

Are they compassionate to their own?

No? Why not?

Why are we expected to be more compassionate than they are?

Isn't La Raza superior to us?

No?

[AmericanInTokyo]

I would say, since these TRESPASSERS are no in position to either dictate terms of any kinds nor negotiate over their position and status, they cut their whining, cut their losses while they can, and get the hell out while they can peacefully do it. All manner of assistance will be offered to deport them so they can unify with their families. It will be a much better deal than what they will be offered by the American People five or ten years from now when we ALL have had too much and will be in no mood to "negotiate".

Take the deal now, amigos y amigas. There is no better time.

[Roy Tucker]

I love the euphemisms here:

“Nearly a third of its residents, mostly undocumented workers from Guatemala and Mexico, sit in jail convicted of identity crimes or awaiting deportation.”

residents=illegal aliens

undocumented workers=illegal aliens

convicted of identity crimes=so they break the law to get into this country and then use false ID to work, again another crime.

I support more legal immigration into this country, but turning a blind eye to illegal immigration cheapens the value of American citizenship for all of us and particularly for those legal immigrants who wait patiently for the confounded bureaucracy to process them.

In business, this is known as protecting our brand.

[freeangel]

It’s not MY moral or legal crisis. Scores of ILLEGALS break the laws by coming into this country and then start crime waves after they get here. THEY are the ones with a moral and legal crisis.

[mommadooo3]

Are you capable of understanding the word ILLEGAL???

[MarkL]

How dare ICE (Immigration and Customs ENFORCEMENT) actually live up to their charter, and ENFORCE THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES!?!?!?!?!?!? Those FINKS! Mark

[gubamyster]

ping

[raybbr]

Oh, goody! Another immigration lawyer telling us how to feel about this invasion

Raquel Aldana
Professor of Law
Email: raquel.aldana@unlv.edu

Professor Aldana earned her J.D. degree in 1997 from Harvard Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Prior to coming to the Boyd School of Law, Professor Aldana worked for the Center for Justice and International Law representing victims of gross human rights violations in the Inter-American System on Human Rights. She also taught a seminar in human rights at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Prior to that, she was an associate at the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. Professor Aldana teaches Immigration Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, International Human Rights, and International Public Law. She also co-teaches experiential learning courses, including a course in Nicaragua on domestic violence in a post-conflict society and a course on the criminalization of immigrants. She spent the Spring of 2006 as a Fulbright Scholar in Guatemala, where she taught courses on economic rights and conducted research on femicide.

[Ron H.]

The title for this hit piece deserves a big BARF ALERT.

[DGHoodini]

(Jaw dropped) I just saw an interview with a member of the family that owns the processing plant...The one where there are allegations of puny wages, abuse, and even beatings of illegal immigrant workers....He was a orthodox Jew...??!!??!!

Hat, beard, and all.

[meadsjn]

U.S. employers and we as consumers [government employees and non-profit orgs] benefit from their cheap labor, but these workers and their families [tax-paying citizens] bear the brunt of a broken immigration system.

Raquel Aldana, you ignorant sl....