Can’t they just run the chicken carcasses through the bleach bath again?
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I feel like it’s just as bad. Obviously people actually dying is a loss that cannot be recovered, but there are probably way more kids who lost one or all of their parents today than did in any mass shooting. Some of them will never see that parent again. Some of those kids are going to end up being abused by their new custodians. Some of them will end up in poverty, lacking access to proper nutrition, etc.
Plus it feels like there is something far more sinister about bureaucracy methodically choosing cruelty than there is about individual outliers being anti-social.
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I always wonder when these kinds of raids happen, did ICE put some ‘political’ thought into it, and not arrest too many workers in any one plant or plants owned by the same business. For example, if they detained half the workers in one plant they would effectively shut it down, and there would be hell to pay from a wealthy business owner who probably donates to local and national politics.
Then there is the question of whether they only target plants based on the politics of the owners.
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ICE was created by the Homeland Secuity Act (2003) signed into law by Bush the Lesser.
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Whoops. Thanks for correction. 
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ICE is all about filling easy quotas with mostly harmless inoffensive people. Mostly to the benefit of the private detention industry. Any semblance to law enforcement with them is strictly accidental.
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Same with the undocumented worker.
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So workers get rounded up to fill ICE quotas and private detention centers and their employers can exploit their labor and pay far below market wages with impunity.
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Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
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I can’t help but feel there’s an unexplored link in there, somewhere.
Next non-ignorant POTUS: Executive action to halt any subsidies to the fossil fuel industry and divert those funds to research in clean-energy tech.
I can dream, can’t I?
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Workers…who could show they were in the country legally were allowed to leave the plant after agents searched the trunks of their vehicles.
They can do this?
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Non-ignorant, non-greedy, non-bought.
It’s a brave new world. Well. Not “brave.” Not really “new” either. It’s a world. Gotta make sure they weren’t hiding friends in the trunks, don’cha know.
And they can do whatever they are allowed to do, and so far they’ve been allowed to set up concentration camps, so checking trunks is small potatoes.
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What’s sad is that for decades, these people have been used on all sides from our government to the companies that hire them. There are absolutely jobs that most Americans will not do. Processing chickens is one of them, as is working in fields.
What sucks is that those that come here for a lot of those jobs get taken advantage of with poverty wages and shit working conditions. It also drives wages down for everyone.
It would seem to me that we should make it easier for workers that want to come and do these jobs to come here to do them and to police the WORKPLACES for violations of any kind.
I feel for these families. Just sad all the way around.
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I… I’m… just… I can’t even form the words to express my rage, anger, hatred, and complete and utter contempt. I just… I can’t. I’m sorry. The government did this. The government did this, on purpose. If there was justice in the world the Hauge would have a word with these agents.
Ever wonder why we have the largest military in the world? Why we can fight everyone else in the world and have a good chance of winning - including our allies and friends? This is why.
I’m just sick. I’m tired and sick and I hate this.
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And then just ship them to the UK as part of a huuuuge trade deal. We are just gagging to have a load of double-chlorinated chicken sent over here, once our livestock processing regulations are demolished by Boris to enable the sunny uplands of post-Brexit US trade.
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Boy howdy is there a lot of distancing language in that statement. Not even an active voice “we believe” (which would still be plenty wishy-washy). Just that “it is believed”. By whom? Who knows. Someone, probably.
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Distributed responsibility = no accountability
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Nope. It’s as “accidental” as TSA public procedures’ similarities with security.
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