https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/09/poultry-industry-recruited-them-now-ice-raids-are-devastating-their-communities/?fbclid=IwAR2cqCxa0htZvqtMRGUepccZKhKkqj9sDOcLbJ3bVljzhYI7k2iN2uqyTE0
In a nutshell:
1) African American workers start to organize against bad conditions and low pay 2) poultry plants replace them with immigrant workers who they obviously know are going to be mostly undocumented -- in fact, they go out of their way to encourage these workers to bring their family and friends, some of whom probably even cross the border for the jobs3) eventually these immigrant workers also start to complaint, protest, raise issues about conditions4) suddenly, whaddyaknow mass raids 5) no evidence that "American" workers benefit, jobs will probably eventually be filled with undocumented immigrants again, who will now be more circumspect about complaining (or else Trump will create some kind of bullshit "guest worker" program to fill them)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 12 August 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
Here's acting USCIS director Ken Cuccinelli saying on NPR this morning that the Statue of Liberty plaque should be changed to read, "give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge." pic.twitter.com/q8OoNn3k6r— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2019
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
In keeping with the values of the French Republic, of course.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
As the meeting ended, Miller held up his hand to make a final comment. “I didn’t mean to come across as harsh,” he said. His voice dropped. “It’s just that this is all I care about. I don’t have a family. I don’t have anything else. This is my life.” https://t.co/TA6oFlZ1cq— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) February 21, 2020
― j., Saturday, 22 February 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
ProPublica: ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say
The allegations, detailed in a filing first obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, maintain that guards systematically assaulted at least three people in a facility overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — often in areas of the detention center not visible to security cameras. The guards told victims that no one would believe them because footage did not exist and the harassment involved officers as high-ranking as a lieutenant.
― Who will station the ox there? (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link