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A couple of years ago, a serial offender food producer was raided, multiple times. 600+ undocumented workers were found, and all spoke of management knowing the

A couple of years ago, a serial offender food producer was raided, multiple times. 600+ undocumented workers were found, and all spoke of management knowing their status. The workers were detained, deported, and so on. After several raids, not so much as a misdemeanor was levied against a single person, nor a fine to the company in general.

aaron-santos 6y ago
Kind of makes me think, what's the point when these laws aren't actually enforced?
- abxytg 6y ago
  The point is to punish and cause pain to the immigrants. Regardless of the original justification of a system, the point of a system is what it does or will do. That is what this system does and will do unless changed.
- HarryHirsch 6y ago
  "For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law." Getúlio Vargas had it all worked out.
Animats 6y ago
See Postville Raid [1] That was in 2008. The company owners were some prominent Jews, and the political fallout was so severe that immigration raids pretty much stopped after that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid
- perl4ever 6y ago
  I don't know anything about it, but from the Des Moines Register, it seems like a lot of people felt there was a miscarriage of justice: "There was false testimony and willful manipulation, and that makes this a shocking case of prosecutorial misconduct." "An unprecedented letter, recently sent to Kevin Techau, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, signed by 107 former high level Department of Justice officials, FBI directors, federal judges and prestigious law professors attests to the extraordinary prosecutorial misconduct which exacted the most possible punitive sentence for Rubashkin" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2016/05/18/prosecutors-judges-decry-rubashkin-witch-hunt/84545848/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/i... Trump commuted Sholom's sentence in 2017, apparently. I'd suggest a different phrase than "prominent Jews"; the family are "ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement" not representatives of some sort of Jewish privilege in general.

aaron-santos 6y ago

Kind of makes me think, what's the point when these laws aren't actually enforced?

abxytg 6y ago
The point is to punish and cause pain to the immigrants. Regardless of the original justification of a system, the point of a system is what it does or will do. That is what this system does and will do unless changed.
HarryHirsch 6y ago
"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law." Getúlio Vargas had it all worked out.

Animats 6y ago

See Postville Raid [1] That was in 2008. The company owners were some prominent Jews, and the political fallout was so severe that immigration raids pretty much stopped after that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid

perl4ever 6y ago
I don't know anything about it, but from the Des Moines Register, it seems like a lot of people felt there was a miscarriage of justice: "There was false testimony and willful manipulation, and that makes this a shocking case of prosecutorial misconduct." "An unprecedented letter, recently sent to Kevin Techau, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, signed by 107 former high level Department of Justice officials, FBI directors, federal judges and prestigious law professors attests to the extraordinary prosecutorial misconduct which exacted the most possible punitive sentence for Rubashkin" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2016/05/18/prosecutors-judges-decry-rubashkin-witch-hunt/84545848/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/i... Trump commuted Sholom's sentence in 2017, apparently. I'd suggest a different phrase than "prominent Jews"; the family are "ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Lubavitcher hasidic movement" not representatives of some sort of Jewish privilege in general.