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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"All your meat rations are belong to us." - KGOP republicans, Inc.
republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief Comrade Casino & his KGOP republican cronies are systematically fouling America's food system. Here's today's republican kick to America's gut:
ICE arrests more than 100 workers in raid on Ohio meat supplier (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/us/ice-raid-meat-supplier-fresh-mark/index.html
But of course KGOP republicans have a plan ready for dealing with this:
duforsure
(11,885 posts)as weapons against us now, and republicans are watching him do this, doing nothing to stop it.
mwooldri
(10,302 posts)Last time that was rolled out it was the late 1930s/1940s
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)marble falls
(57,063 posts)for this for years.
They fire up their faux grassroots supporters over "illegal immigrants" the whole time they make millions over undocumented workers in their meat packing plants. They encourage the situations because they make money and keep wages low.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)you can bet your hamburger bun it won't be the last.
ICE Carries Out Its Largest Immigration Raid In Recent History, Arresting 146
Source: NPR
Dozens of federal agents descended on a major meat supplier in northeast Ohio on Tuesday, arresting 146 Fresh Mark employees in what the agency calls its largest workplace raid in recent history and its second massive raid in the state this month.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that its investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations, obtained a warrant to search the meat processing plant in Salem, Ohio, as part of a yearlong probe of Fresh Mark's hiring practices and whether it may have knowingly hired undocumented immigrants. Agents also searched three other company facilities without making more arrests.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621810030/ice-carries-out-its-largest-immigration-raid-in-recent-history-arresting-146