160 Arrested in Immigration Raid at a Houston Plant

Source: NY Times





Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/us/26raid.html?_r=1&oref=login

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1) Biggest ICE raid stories lately also have underlying subtopic, union organization or worker's rights activity suppressed, and 2) since the targets were women, what's happening with the children?

This inquiring mind wants to know, since it was primarily women and we are talking about Texas, will ICE lock up the 'family' at Camp Hutto family detention center?

And I bet the ICE will be locking up families.

I wonder what prompted the roundup? Perhaps Action Rags couldn't make payroll? Will Action Rags be penalized in any way?

Just wait until Action Rags catches on that he'd make more money putting prisoners to work than immigrants.

That is what happened here when my father was getting the shit cut out of his wages and seeing all his friends getting laid off.

This is one area I don't get our party. We claim to be the party of unions, but then turn around and fist fuck them when it comes to illegal immigration. After all, "we (and my father) don't really want these jobs anyway."

that's what 'Right to work' refers to.

Sure, they don't have the power as in other states as the company CAN fire them all, the unions DO have power.

Not that it really matters so long as you understand it's wrong.

Right to Work laws are really more easily understood if you view them as a Right to Scab. They permit non-union workers to be used in such a way as to undermine the unions and weaken their power. Which in turn helps the business by weakening the power that their labor wields.

:blush:

I was told something and understood it incorrectly.

In essence, Right to Work laws in TX simply give the employer the legal recourse to fire any employee for any reason (other than discrimination).

were
A) American citizens
or
B) Here legally

there were two citizens and a bit less than a dozen green-card holders

It always does.

in the first place.

record on fining employers for exploiting illegal workers?

I don't remember when I last saw the statistic, but it showed that this administration is pretty much allowing companies to do this with hardly even an occasional slap on the wrist.

are two enormous beneficiaries of illegal immigration.

Using illegal immigrants will continue unless the companies hiring them are prosecuted. This hiring practice is the modern day method of slavery . . . "Low to no pay brings higher profits!"

Oh, yeah...

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C'mon down.

It seems once or twice a week I hear about a raid with one or two hundred people being arrested, and there's quite a few threads around here about teachers who walk into their classes one day to find a quarter of the students missing or somesuch. There's gotta be thousands upon thousands so far, and I'm kind of curious as to where they're winding up.

right now are immigration cases. But in all honesty, I don't know if that's change from before ICE or what it means to the bigger picture.

http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/188/

eta: But I notice it says "criminal immigration prosecutions" and am not clear if that means immigration law violaters -- it shouldn't -- or not. But, as this is BushWorld, it might.

was a mess. :hi:

Secretary of State records. The records listed Mubarik Kahlon as the company's registered agent and director. Secretary of State spokesman Scott Haywood confirmed that Action Rags is no longer a registered LLC in Texas ..."
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