As many as 700 arrested in Iowa illegal immigration raid
POSTVILLE, Iowa — A raid by federal immigration officials at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant may have resulted in as many as 700 arrests, immigration officials said Monday
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said that the Postville immigration investigations were warranted despite concerns that federal official violated the constitutional rights of people in past raids.
"Remember our concern has not been about whether or not there should be raids," Vilsack said. "It's the way the raids have been conducted and the way in which American citizens' rights have been violated by virtue of sort of a roundup process that's used and what we think are inappropriate and unconstitutional actions on the part of immigration officials."
Vilsack and others have alleged that immigration officials used humiliation, opposite-sex searches and long periods of secrecy in the Dec. 12, 2006, raids at Swift & Co. in Marshalltown, Iowa, where 90 people were arrested on immigration charges.
I don't understand.
it's not like 700 illegals gathered together and decided they were going to become kosher meat processors... isn't a company that employs 60-70% illegal immigrants out of 1000 total employees like a fucking crime-magnet?
why is there no mention of the owners and management being rounded up and arrested. seize the property and send the owners to Guantanamo Bay for chrissakes
why do we allow this crap?
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