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Immigration Raids Lead U.S. to a Moral, Legal Crisis
New America Media ^ | 06.19.2008 | Raquel Aldana

Posted on 06/19/2008 8:58:57 PM PDT by Coffee200am

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1 posted on 06/19/2008 8:58:57 PM PDT by Coffee200am
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To: Coffee200am

BUUUUUUUUUUUU HUUUUUUUUUUUUU

(That’s “Boo Hoo” in Spanish)


2 posted on 06/19/2008 9:01:35 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Coffee200am

They’re right next door to me, ICE. Go and GET them.


3 posted on 06/19/2008 9:01:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: martin_fierro

No, no. It’s “Cry Me A Rio.”


4 posted on 06/19/2008 9:02:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Coffee200am

No moral issues as far as I’m concerned. They broke the law, they go home. Very simple, and much better treatment than the average US citizen criminal faces in his own country.


5 posted on 06/19/2008 9:02:46 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Coffee200am

I agree that employers should be fined too. Other than that, I am glad to see the Government finally doing its job (though its probably just doing it for show).


6 posted on 06/19/2008 9:04:08 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: buccaneer81

Exactly, no one is the blame but the illegals them selves..they could of stayed home....


7 posted on 06/19/2008 9:04:15 PM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: buccaneer81
and much better treatment than the average US citizen criminal faces in his own country.

And much better treatment than the average US citizen criminal faces in Mejico.

8 posted on 06/19/2008 9:04:59 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Coffee200am

“Aided by local law enforcement, ICE arrested 389 workers during the largest single-site immigration raid in U.S. history at the Postville meatpacking plant, the area’s major employer. In an unprecedented move, ICE criminally charged 302 of these workers with aggravated ID theft and/or using false social security numbers. Within days, ICE resolved their fate: 297 men and women pled guilty and were sentenced to prison and subsequent deportation.”
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ICE agents rock! They sure do more than the BP.

And Ms. Aldana, with all your mumbo jumbo legal arguments, shouldn’t there only be 1 question here?

Are these invaders here LEGALLY?


9 posted on 06/19/2008 9:05:51 PM PDT by max americana
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To: rbg81

Great - Send 'em back!

10 posted on 06/19/2008 9:06:52 PM PDT by B-Cause (It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.)
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To: Coffee200am
For this, Postville should thank their local police, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), and a failed immigration policy.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

>The involvement of local law enforcement in these raids is also worrisome

This guy should be hanged

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

- Theodore Roosevelt

11 posted on 06/19/2008 9:07:38 PM PDT by bill1952 (Obama-the only one who can make me vote McCain McCain-the only one who can make me stay at home)
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To: Coffee200am
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12 posted on 06/19/2008 9:08:47 PM PDT by BunnySlippers ("&#1042;&#1099;&#1089;&#1096;&#1077;&#1081; &#1082;&#1072;&#1090;&#1077;&#1075;&#1086;&#1088;&#1080;)
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To: Coffee200am
but these workers and their families bear the brunt of a broken immigration system.

Remember this sentence the next time you hear about an illegal raping and killing a college freshman or slamming their car drunk into a family of four...
13 posted on 06/19/2008 9:09:04 PM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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To: Coffee200am
"Congress specifically exempted from prosecution workers who use false Social Security numbers to engage in otherwise lawful conduct, such as to procure jobs. "

Congress exempted illegal aliens from identity theft laws?

14 posted on 06/19/2008 9:09:21 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Conservatives NEED John Bolton for President.)
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To: Coffee200am

There was a time in this country when someone this stupid could not get a job as a janitor at a “law school.” Now, a person with her level of intelligence can actually get a job as a “teacher” at a “law school.” Must be one of those “wrong direction” things that the pollsters are always asking about.


15 posted on 06/19/2008 9:11:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: Coffee200am

“Legally speaking, ICE and federal prosecutors overstepped their powers when they criminally charged the workers. Congress specifically exempted from prosecution workers who use false Social Security numbers to engage in otherwise lawful conduct, such as to procure jobs.”


Actually its Congress who has overstepped their powers by exempting illegals from prosecution.


16 posted on 06/19/2008 9:12:07 PM PDT by Old Flat Toad (Pima county- Home of the single vehicle accident with 40 victims.)
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To: Coffee200am
One thing's for sure: this law school professor is a complete mathematical illiterate. One of very few raids annually yields 297 temporary incarcerations and deportations, while by her own admission 2,000 illegals cross the southern border every day, and this raid constitutes a humanitarian crisis?

As for the fact that the employers face no charges, she's right. We can and should fix that. Under current law, this employer is liable for fines of up to $5,000/illegal, with IIRC an additional fine of $6,000/illegal if a "pattern of practice" of hiring illegals can be established. A fine of about $3 million would send a nice message to other employers. Let's roll.

17 posted on 06/19/2008 9:13:11 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I'm taking Grandma's advice and I'm holding my nose, John, stop sticking your finger down my throat.)
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To: Coffee200am
Hey you bleeding heart socialist they are criminals!

Just because this government has failed to enforce the law in the past doesn't mean they shouldn't do it now.

Fact is they should greatly intensify the capture an deportation to make up for their past dereliction of duty

18 posted on 06/19/2008 9:13:30 PM PDT by dalereed (both)
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To: Coffee200am
Nearly a third of its residents, mostly undocumented workers from Guatemala and Mexico, sit in jail convicted of identity crimes or awaiting deportation. Hundreds more hide in fear.

Since all the illegals are surely not in jail, it's certain that illegals made up a majority of the population. It's also clear that the American citizens of the town have been victims of an invasion that rendered them aliens in their own hometown. It's also clear that when companies built a meatpacking plant in an area without a large enough population to fill the jobs, and then advertize the jobs in Spanish language papers, and hire huge numbers of Spanish speakers, they know perfectly well they are conspiring to break our immigration laws. The feds should go after them with RICO laws, jail the top management and seize the plant.

19 posted on 06/19/2008 9:21:25 PM PDT by Hugin (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: Coffee200am
You are a winner of the Watermelon Viking Award


20 posted on 06/19/2008 9:21:54 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (Let freedom ring.)
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