| MINNEAPOLIS -- The arrests on Monday of 390 undocumented immigrants at a meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, was a tactic to distract the nation from the failures of the Bush administration, Minnesota immigrant activists said Friday. The raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents was the largest to be carried out at a single location. On Thursday ICE reported that some of those arrested had been charged with criminal offenses including aggravated identity theft for falsifying documents to obtain employment... "That raid was used to cover up what is going on in this country," said Rafael Espinosa, a union representative of United Food and Commercial Workers. "Instead of focusing on what is going on with the mortgage industry and the economy, the government is spreading fear and inciting people to deport their neighbors." |
From tiredofit - 17 May 2008 @ 04:55 pm
neighbors"!! It's comparable to taking out the garbage. 
