The protests will begin in 5, 4, 3 . .
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - U.S. immigration officials raided the Koch Foods Inc. chicken plant in Fairfield, Ohio, and arrested more than 160 employees as part of a criminal operation against illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Tuesday.
“As of 2:45 p.m. (EDT) more than 180 Koch employees have been identified for further questioning and more than 160 have been administratively arrested for immigration violations,” ICE special agent in charge Brian Moskowitz told a news conference in Cincinnati.
According to the report, this company has been under investigation for some time, and search warrants were simultaeously executed at company facilities in Cincinnati and Chicago.
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“I got a call from one woman this morning and her husband was just picked up at the chicken processing plant,” said Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, director of the Butler County Community Alliance.
“(Immigration agents) believe that in picking up a few people here, if done with enough force, will send back others through fear. The children don’t understand and are now going home and asking if they’re going to be arrested,” she said.
“It impacts the entire community in a negative way. The law gives them the right to do this, but we think it could be more humanely done.”
Well, at least it’s refreshing to hear that the government has the right to enforce the law.
UPDATE:
Tempers were flaring at a post-raid press conference:
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones has been one of the country’s most outspoken opponents of illegal immigrants and employers who use them, and has lobbied Washington for better enforcement and deportation of undocumented workers.
“I’ve been saying for 2-1/2 years ‘We’re coming, … don’t hire illegals, don’t violate the law,”‘ Jones told the news conference. “I personally have no sympathy for you whatsoever, None. Zero.”
A handful of protesters shouting “this is an outrage” tried to disrupt the news conference.
“These are working people, these are family people, they are keeping our economy growing. They should not be arrested. What’s happening to their children?” said Dan LaBotz, carrying a sign reading “Stop the attack on immigrant families.”
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Woohoo It’s about time the government did something
Dont be so happy. GWB and Jerkoff are doing this to get the activists going. They want the images of families being torn apart on the nightly news. When enough heat is put on, GWB can bring out another “comprehensive amnesty plan” to help the “children”.
Dont you remember Jerkoff warning about this? “Dont make me enforce the immigration laws, you wont like the result”
We cannot have sympathy for law breakers. No exception. People are jailed daily for breaking the law. Why does illegal immigration get a pass? When the gov’t is doing some of these daily and hitting major busineess (home/road construction ,not just the chicken processing plants)then we can watch the run for the border. They could be doing this for the ploy of watching costs start going up and then say we can fix that with the amnesty issue. They always do it for some gain.
Were any of the people who hired these workers arrested?
The only thing I don’t like about the enforcement action so far is they are doing enough of it. If we had raids like this every day, my bet is that employers woul dcease hiring anyone without a verifiable S.S. identification number. Without employment the ILLEGALS will have little reason to remain.
I agree trl3, we do not have enough raids……. If I entered Mexico, and stayed, illegally, I would awaken in fear every day too. They can find their way back home, if fear is their motivator.
We can raid companies every day, but unless we arrest the people who do the hiring, we are wasting time and effort.
160, thats all?
There are that many at the Home Depot parking lot at Bellaire Blvd. & Beltway 8 every morning.
Construction people, the new homes, the new warehouses, etc. I bet there are 16,000 working those jobs within 100 miles of downtown Houston.
They never touch them, why?
Maybe because most are 1099’s working for the sub-contractors which insulates the big deep pocket builders from being charged and fined?
No money to collect, no raid?
Why?
Why am I paying for ICE officials to go there and arrest and deport illegal aliens, when thousands are coming back across the border every single day to replace the deportees?
It’s like I have a house without a roof in Seattle and I’m paying guys to towel dry all of my possessions each time it rains instead of intalling a roof.
Build me a fence and suspend any company who knowingly hires illegals (or turns a blind eye) for X amount of days.
I’m SICK OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7.
So you think they will go back because they can’t appear on the payroll. Those raids won’t solve the problem. They need to work, they will just get another job where they get paid cash. What would you do? Their needs are no different than yours. You just happened to be born in a country where no child dies of starvation.
11. bobbyjf
Okay, why don’t you list for us then the laws we should have to obey and those we shouldn’t.
The fact is, if Mom commits criminal fraud, she gets arrested even if she has a kid at home. All of the crimes listed in comment 10 are felonies. Which of them should we not have to abide by? Please be specific.
Bobby, have you ever been a victim of identity theft? I’ll bet you’d change your tune in a heartbeat if an illegal used your social security no.
Bobby, you assume their country cannot provide for them. It can, it just chooses not to. They are breaking into this country, taking jobs legal immigrants would do.
To those who support illegal immigrants you are correct they are only here to earn a living, use our social security numbers, drive drunk on our roads, fill up our hospital emergency rooms, sell drugs to our kids, steal our vehicles, fill our schools with kids who do not want to learn, they do not want to learn English, want to drive without insurance, or a drivers license, or in a registered vehicle, get free medical, free rent, free food, free, free, free, free.
While we pay, pay, pay, pay, and bury our dead, the innocent consequences of the illegals crime.
Where doI see all this, the local 6:00pm news.
Did I forget anything?
#15-I am not a proponent of illegal immigration. Something needs to be done. But can you tell me how you are affected personally, and back it up with any facts or statistics?
Not only are they illegal aliens who obviously broke the law by entering this country, they are also a burdent on social services from emergency room costs and education costs. Just think where we could reapply those costs for bilingual education into other aspects of child’s education process. We have been catering to the “ILLEGALS” for too long. The Dimwits do it for the votes, the Republicans do it for the businesses and that is why the problem will never be solved.
Perhaps RickG would go back to the poor country from which he came. I strongly believe that they are going to stay here for as long as they can. That’s what I would do if I were (not was) in that situation.
RickG this is the list of laws to obey: All of them.Do you obey them all? or you pick and choose?
And yes mrygill2, I have been a victim of crimes but not Identity theft. I’m smart enough to monitor my credit file. Unlike most Americans (who can’t find the US in the world map. Why do you think that is?)
Fortunately I managed to get an education. I borrowed money to get a MS degree. Now live here legally and make more money most Americans do. I don’t feel threatened by those unskilled workers but do know they kind of conditions from which they are escaping.
Look at West Virginia, with the lowest percentage of immigrants in the country and at the same time, one of the poorest stated in the union. Why do you think that is? Hard working people do more for this society that all those Americans living on unemployment benefits.
I say, deport all foreign criminals, unfortunately the locally grown ones we need to keep. Work something out with honest hard working people.
Hmmmm…
Now, once again, can someone please explain to me why there is ‘no opprotunity’ in Mexico.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mexican_billionaires
And, depending upon whose math you use, the richest person in the world is possibly Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
We’re not talking about some famine ravaged west African nation, we’re talking about Mexico.
If my neighbor comes to me asking to borrow money for the food he can’t afford to purchase for his upcoming pool party…
Uh, bobby, I believe RickG is in the country from which he came.
gadboy, here’s one glaring local example:
Since I own property in Harris County this is something that affects me personally.
#16
We are all affected by the hidden costs of illegal immigration, do you not agree? The majority of these people are hard working and are only taking advantage of a situation we have provided for them. The failure of our government to not secure the border and most importantly not creating a system where good honest immigrants can come here in a controlled manner and work is the problem.
Why does our government want to drain our resources like this? I have no answer not even a wild guess. But do not deny that we all pay the hidden costs of illegal immigration.
Estimates are that there are between 20,000 and 35,000 illegal immigrants in HISD alone. Since I pay HISD school taxes this is also something that affects me directly.
How is it that Mexico can have one of the largest economies in the world and still be a hellhole? The people of Mexico need to fix their own country, and not bleed ours dry.
Good try hamous. Learn your own language first, then try to be funny.
“would” can be used in auxiliary function in the conclusion of a conditional sentence to express a contingency or possibility (from Merriam-Webster)
If he were here illegally, he would go back to his country.
Anyway, What’s your point? Do you have any thoughts about this issue? if so, share them. if not that’s alright. I don’t expect you to have any. “my friends and I know EXACTLY where the US is in our maps,….. Totally!!!”
I say, deport all foreign criminals, unfortunately the locally grown ones we need to keep. Work something out with honest hard working people.
I think bobby is goofing us. He has all the earmarks of a troll.
#25
And if my Aunt had testicles she’d be my Uncle. What’s YOUR point?
#26 Earmarks? RP voted against them before he voted for them.
bobby sounds suspiciously like Noodles.
no one seems to want to address one of the biggest part of the problem. When are we going to start arresting the business people who employ illegals?
gadboy
And that was 2006.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-22-immigration-employers_x.htm
If Arizona is freeing itself of illegals, and Del Rio is too, plus employers are receiving stiff fines and arrest, we will see a trend to return to Mexico. It should be illegal for Houston to be a sanctuary city. Maybe the black population of the city will fight back and force the mayor to remove this title. I heard Romney say today, if sanctuary cities are needed to protect illegals, the entire country should be…… a swipe at Guiliani.. then he said NO, we are a country of laws, and the laws need to be obeyed. What a concept.
Is this another calculated attempt to put “poor families being ruthlessly ripped apart” on the front page to drum up support for amnesty OR is it government doing what government is supposed to do? It seems like I’m forced to second guess everything these days.
Trollin’ trollin’ trollin’ #25. And while you’re at it, recall that the first word in a sentence begins with a capital letter, subsequent words are lower case unless proper nouns or titles. You have a What that should be what, two ifs that should be Ifs, my that should be My…. And all right is two words, not alright. You do not use a comma preceding ellipses (the dots, dolt). Three to indicate missing material within a sentence and a fourth when when the missing material indication ends a sentence. You used five after the incorrect comma after maps.
Dam I feel like in back in freakin English class.
Hey me eyetalian no understando da Inglish
Interesting~
Pssst! Adee: Can I have your phone # so you can help me with the twins English homework?
You GO GIRL!
AZ, you aren’t bobbyjf. He inhabits a glass house but has been oblivious to that and keeps on throwing stones. Just tossing a few back. /Grin/
36 Adee,
No, you can click onto AZ and see who I am, plus bobbyjf uses big words, they give me heartburn and hurt my brain.
My fear is that as more and more cities and states enact laws covering the illegals, it will force the Congress to ram through a comprehensive immigration reform bill (which jorge boosh would overstay his term to sign). The pretext would be that there are too many and diverse laws for multi-state employers to follow, and a single direction would be needed to prevent chaos (if what we have now does not look like chaos, then you could have fooled me). The price of that single direction? Why amnesty of course!
Let’s play “Who Said It!” shall we?
“I don’t think this is that difficult an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all the mean rhetoric”
“We need those individuals to continue to grow our economy,”
“The vast, vast majority of those individuals want to come and work and take care of their families.”
Stop being mean for crying out loud!
“There have always been — whether you were African-American, or Hispanic, or for that matter some other ethnic group — people who are mean and will make mean statements. That’s nothing new in the world we live in.”
I think these raids are happening too frequently, I think the guvmint has known where these people are for years.
#39….Gubner Goodhair?
Bottom line, the US economy would take a severe hit if all illegal immigrants suddenly left the country but the law clearly states “no illegal immigrants”; an obvious catch-22 … that’s why there’s no fence (and increased border patrol in general) and that’s also why we hear stories (every now and then) about the government enforcing their own immigration laws (to appease the people who Really dislike immigrants cuz they are ‘bleeding our country dry’)
The most cogent argument posted so far is to focus on the illegals that have involved themselves in criminal activity detrimental to our society … i’m not talking getting busted for marijuana possession or shoplifting cuz u’re hungry.. i’m talking repeated assault, theft, murder, narco trafficking, terrorism, etc. …. and that tends to be what is happening now policy-wise.
The funny thing though that I haven’t been able to reconcile yet is that the US will import as many highly skilled and accredited people as it can but will deport the ‘bad eggs’ .. the result? Developing nations frequently experience a ‘brain drain’ and a greater influx of criminals to deal with..
Also before anyone talks about “this is the law!!” Let’s not forget that this country was founded on breaking the law and the major civil rights laws and institutions of our day came about PRECISELY because of peoples’ desire to break laws they deemed to be unjust. I’m willing to bet that many of you who are strongly opposed to any kind of amnesty for illegal immigrants are privleged and white and also have ancestors that came to this country or founded this country ILLEGALLY. So if you are one of those people .. screw u. If not, lemme know.