http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4612
by http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4653 Edwards
The other day the federal government conducted a high profile raid of illegal immigrants at America’s largest kosher meat plant in rural Postville, Iowa, arresting hundreds. No one in management was arrested for hiring these illegals, hundreds of whom were obviously using fake ID and stolen Social Security numbers. Hundreds of your employees are dark brown, can’t speak English, and they all have names like Tom Richards, William Jones, Edward Jenkins, etc.? Yeah, nothing amiss there.
But that’s not even half of it. The company, Agriprocessors, owns another plant in Brooklyn, New York. They’ve been in a protracted court battle – in a federal court no less – over the Brooklyn employees http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4624. The workers voted to form a union, and the company, which is run by a small clique of Lubavitcher Jews, sued to stop them from unionizing in federal court. On what grounds? You’ll never believe it:
“And last month, the company lost a federal appellate court battle over whether or not it could ignore a vote by workers at its Brooklyn distribution center to unionize, on grounds that those in favor were illegal immigrants and not entitled to federal labor protections.”Yeah, go ahead and rub your eyes and read that again.
That’s right; they claimed that the workers can’t unionize because they’re in the country illegally, and aren’t entitled to the protection of our labor laws!
Knowingly hiring/employing illegal aliens is a crime. And yet a company can go to federal court, argue that a case against them should be thrown out on the grounds that they themselves have committed scores of illegal acts, and are continuing to do so, and no one says a word, and the judge doesn’t throw the case out and order the owners of the company arrested.
And labor activists claim the real reason the Postville plant was raided was to derail a federal investigation into even worse labor practices:
“‘This employer has a long history of violating every law that’s out there — labor laws, environmental laws, now immigration laws,’ said Mark Lauritsen, international vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which has waged a bitter battle to organize the Postville plant. The union charged that the immigration raid disrupted a separate U.S. Labor Department investigation into alleged child labor law violations and other infractions.
“ICE may be ‘deporting 390 witnesses” to the labor investigation, Lauritsen said, adding, ‘This administration seems to place a larger value on splashy shows in this immigration raid than in vigorously enforcing other labor laws.'”
Of course, should the public outcry against this case get loud enough, (which is unlikely), the feds will probably move to make a few token arrests among management, while being careful to give the suspects plenty of time to flee to Israel, which has no extradition treaty with us. You know how those “strategic allies” are.
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/2008/05/19/feds-serious-about-illegals/
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