Postville Followup: Illegal Employers Hate the Party Being Over
"Welcome to ground zero of the nation's immigration 
debate -- the tiny town of Postville, Iowa, a rural community of 2,400 tucked into the northeast corner of a state that's 94 percent white. It's a town that's been turned 'topsy turvy,' Mayor Bob Penrod says, since hundreds of heavily armed federal immigration agents swooped in a few months ago and raided its main employer, Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant," CNN reports. "It appears, based on 2007 fourth-quarter payroll reports, that approximately 76 percent of the 968 employees of Agriprocessors were using false or fraudulent Social Security numbers in connection with their employment," ICE alleges in its affidavit [. . .] ICE has no apologies for cracking down. 'Local disruption is easy to see and report on. What is less obvious is the devastation caused by the hundreds of illegal aliens who stole the identities of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents,' ICE's Counts said."
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Once again, thanks to ICE and Homeland Security for cracking down on illegal labor racketeering and identity fraud. As Stein Report bloggers know, I was early in praising Secretary Chertoff and the Bush Administration after they began turning the tide on enforcement. Now our President can hang his hat on an enduring legacy: the first administration to actually crack down on this enormous, built-up problem of immigration...and before it became a national catastrophe.
I don't mean to minimize how much damage has been done through unchecked immigration, and I understand the cynical perspective that this is all merely designed to fatten us up for the Big Amnesty, but the White House, Homeland Security and ICE deserve our praise for doing a tough and critical job at this time. We need to keep up the heat, too, or during the next Administration we'll likely be nostalgic for the good 'ol days of Bush Administration enforcement.
AS I HAVE SAID, WITH THE TWO OPEN BORDER NUTS WE HAVE RUNNING FOR PREZ, THIS KIND OF ENFORCEMENT COULD BE STOPPED, AND REVERSED BACK TO THE STATUS QUO.
IN OTHER WORDS, JUST LOOK THE OTHER WAY, TO PLEASE THEIR CORPORATE MASTERS.
No sympathy for the church pastor, the mayor, the school principal or anyone who knew there were illegals in that town.
They should have nabbed the 300 that got away.
If they needed 3,000 to corral and arrest the 300 then do it!!!!!
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