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Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:20 AM Jun 2018

"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:

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"All your meat rations are belong to us." - KGOP republicans, Inc. (Original Post) Achilleaze Jun 2018 OP
They're using our institutions duforsure Jun 2018 #1
WW III ? mwooldri Jun 2018 #2
True that. But... Achilleaze Jun 2018 #4
The Koch brothers have been paying regular fines in the hundreds of thousand dollars ... marble falls Jun 2018 #3
Meatheads (R) Achilleaze Jun 2018 #5
Most Bigly republican ICE raid so far Achilleaze Jun 2018 #6

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
1. They're using our institutions
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:36 AM
Jun 2018

as weapons against us now, and republicans are watching him do this, doing nothing to stop it.

marble falls

(57,063 posts)
3. The Koch brothers have been paying regular fines in the hundreds of thousand dollars ...
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 10:39 AM
Jun 2018

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)
6. Most Bigly republican ICE raid so far
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 07:43 AM
Jun 2018

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

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