"According to Sister Mary, the church heard rumors of an impending ICE raid on Friday and began to prepare. Declaring that the church is “a safe home” for illegal immigrants and that “people have human rights above any laws,” I agree with this, however crossing the US border is NOT one of those basic human rights.

Illegal immigration is against the law in the United States. Illegal immigrants are criminals. They have broken existing U.S. Immigration law. Where is the debate Democrats and greed Republicans constantly speak of. If you want to change the law , go lobby and pay of politicians as you crooks always do. But until then, all illegal immigrants and all illegal immigration enablers are criminals--as defined by existing immigration law. There is NO DEBATE, anymore than whether I have to pay taxes or not on my income.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TOWN OFFICIALS LOOK THE OTHER WAY, AND IGNORE THE CITIZENS...

YOU GET OVERRUN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND THE COSTS AND THE BURDEN ON SOCIAL SERVICES SKYROCKET...

12 MILLION MORE TOO GO!

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THE WAY I SEE THIS IS THEY BROKE THE LAW (THE CHURCH).

ABBETTING ILLEGALS IS A FELON. CRIME?

THE LAW IS THE LAW EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO

ILLEGLAS, THEN IT CHANGES? READ.TITLE 8--SECTION 1325 OF THE U.S.CODE.

HURRY UP, OR THE GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE IT OFF THE LAW BOOKS

Yesterday in the first installment of this story, [The source also reported that some employees were running a methamphetamine lab in the plant and were bringing weapons into the plant, which employs about 1,000. He said he was fired after he told his superiors.]

Weapons and a meth lab?! Whaaaattt!! ICE has enough to deport every ILLEGAL ALIEN just for being here illegally but the employers "have" to be arrested for the meth lab (unless it was dismantled beforehand). Are they producing the drugs inside the St. Bridget’s Catholic Church now?

I still cannot figure out how the police department, school officials and others never confronted these ILLEGALS in their neighborhoods for 20 years. “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”, I presume.

The fired employee has a hell of a lawsuit at the very least for his termination, he should be the town’s hero! It seems no one (even the police) had the guts to open his or her mouth until this red-blooded American spoke up! He certainly saved the town’s taxpayers a bundle.

The police chief and the city counsel are guilty of dereliction of duty and should be removed from office! This problem was know as far back as 20 years and the city counsel did nothing about it. Smells like corruption to me!!
Somehow the Catholic church believes it's above the law? The last I heard, harboring criminals was an overt act of aiding and abetting. Warrants should be issued to arrest all the church officials involved in this crime.
Releasing illegal aliens because of " personal obligations", is a joke. Believing they will show up in court has always proved to be a joke. Any personal problems they are facing, they have brought on themselves, and I have no sympathy for them! It's simple, don't break our laws and you won't have personal problems to deal with!!
The legal American citizens of Potsville, Iowa should be demanding that the owners be charged with a federal crime as well as being sued in civil court to obtain the money lost by American citizens in the form of lost wages and benefits, as well as lost tax revenue. This companies business license should be revoked permanently.

First and foremose, THANK YOU for the follow-up. This is the first time that I can think of that anybody has given any sort of follow-up to anything like this or of this scale.

Secondly I think the Catholic Church should lose their tax-exempt status for harboring criminals and aiding and abetting criminal activity. HUMAN RIGHTS - let them go back to their home country and fight for human rights - and you can take the Catholic Church with you.

For 20 years the town officials have turned a blind eye. These people have been there for 20 years and I am sure they have dug themselves in pretty well.

The Chief of Police should be arrested for failing to uphold the laws he swore to uphold. They didn't say his name but, somehow I get the feeling he has a Hispanic background. Sorry - but when someone in that sort of position does that then they are usually either exploiting or profiting from the illegal immigration.

The teachers should teach English. Kids can't understand them - tough! Learn the language and to hell with this bilingual crap! Our tax dollars are being wasted on crap like this! Same with our ballots! Can't read English - learn it! We here in California have our ballot information printed in about 10 different languages - should be only one!

The information said the teachers did not say anything for fear of repraisal - isn't that against the law? That would be a great civil rights lawsuit!

Kudos for iCE. the pro illegal immigrant people never consider the costs to taxpayers.

It was about time INS did something. Before the Unions were busted in the packing plants in the "70's the beginning wage was $12.00 an hour. Starting wage at Tyson's in Waterloo is $9.50 an hour and Agriprocessors was paying $5.00. In nearby Waukon the convenience stores are advertizing for workers and they are offering $7.50 an hour for a part time worker. Across northeast Iowa that is the wage rate that is being offered to part time workers (high school kids). Anybody that is paying less than that can only be getting workers who are drug users, bums, or illegal aliens. If you want to know why there is much meat being recalled all you have to do is look at the quality of workers at these plants.

The Catholic Church should be stripped of its tax exempt status if it continues to interfere with enforcement of American immigration law. It should also be brought up on criminal charges for aiding and abetting, as well as harboring illegal immigrants in this country. We cannot allow any religious organization to interfere with, or determine what the laws of this land should or shouldn’t be. Isn’t this what the “separation of church and state” was designed to achieve?

Some one ought to tell Sister Mary at St. Bridgetts Church that the Constitution of the United States does not grant them any power to provide sanctuary to anybody who is breaking the law. ICE should go kick the door of that church open and arrest any criminal illegal immigrants that might be there. If they find that the church is harboring criminal illegal immigrants, the church should be charged with Felony Obstruction of Justice charges. No Mercy Granted - AMEN

The Catholic Church is disgusting in their promotion of illegal activity. They should be punished and the illegals sent home.

THE SCHOOLS DON"T NEED A BI-LINGUAL ANCHOR AROUND THEIR NECKS

About 50% of all American kids aren't graduating from high school and we're suppose to take time out to teach illegal anchor babies English?

Perhaps the good sisters would agree that we should just make the e-verify program mandatory for everyone and clean up the "documents" that someone can use to get a job (ie. make them tamperproof and biometric) so we would not have to do this any more.

Per NumbersUSA, Sen. Feinstein is trying to attach amnesty for ag workers onto the Iraq Supplemental Spending Bill.

Please call the senators listed on NumbersUSA home page and tell them to oppose this amnesty!!

I would still like someone to answer my question - preferably someone in the Mexican government - What would your government do to me if I sneaked across your border, changed my name, stole someone's identity, stole someone else's social security number (or the Mexican equivelant) and gave fraudulent papers to my employer? Would I be able to get a free education for myself or my children? Would I be entitled to free medical care? food stamps? home loans? the right to wave my USA flag? March and demand that the Mexican government owed me the same rights as Mexican citizens? Tell me, Presidente Calderon, what would your answer be?

The town officials were not put into office by the act of some almighty. Mention was made that this illegal immigration has been an ongoing process for some twenty years. What happens? Do the voters give
the elected officials a MANDATE to stay in office forever? I think naught. Before we have the privilege to comlain against our elected officials,
lets check to insure that we elected them. The question that arises is as to whether or not your
hands are clean. Did you vote for this person, or,
did you leave it to Johnny Jones

OK, it's nice to see this happening, but when are we going to get enforcement in Mexifornia? Some of us Americans still live here.
All I'm asking is 50 raids a day, with 100 illegals apprehended per raid. Is that asking too much" That would be a little more than a million a year.
We could reclaim the State in a few years. Hello ICE, are you listening?

It'll will be a cold day when the Catholic Church gets a dime from me again. Never!

i find it strange they target this place and not all the Chinese take out places in the contry or in Dearborn

I left a note with my last donation to the Catholic Church in their collection plate. Stating that I will no longer give money to any organization the fuels illegal immigration and who plays a blind eye to the child rapist priests.