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28 de Septiembre, 2007
Hope Your Hoofburger is ICE cold
Categorized under Frontera | Tags: migra
Reno, Nevada - Federal agents raided 11 McDonald's restaurants in northern Nevada and made dozens of arrests Thursday as part of an investigation into illegal immigration.
Agents for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made at least 56 arrests in Reno, Sparks and Fernley after raids at the restaurants and a franchise corporate headquarters in Reno, agency spokesman Richard Rocha said.
'They are people suspected of being in the country illegally. As far as I know, they were all McDonald's employees,' he told The Associated Press.
The investigation began five months ago and was sparked by an identity theft complaint, Rocha said. A local law enforcement agency then gave ICE information that illegal immigrants were working at specific McDonald's restaurants, he said. [...]
The raids drew immediate criticism from Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and activists, who estimated the number of arrests to be closer to 100. [...]
'We don't approve of the Gestapo methods ICE is using,' said Gilbert Cortez, a Latino leader who urged Hispanic workers to stay home from work in protest Friday.
Cashell, a Republican and former lieutenant governor, said that if identity theft was involved, that was wrong, and that he opposed a protest that would keep workers at home on Friday.
He said he would contact Nevada's congressional delegation and ask the city council to look into the raids. He said that he opposes illegal immigration, as well as immunity for illegal immigrants, but that 'there has to be a better way to do this.'
'Think of some of the people who were arrested and picked up; they have children. They don't know where their mama or their daddy is. That's not right.'"
STOP KIDDING YOURSELF, señor. These raids; this increased persecution; this busting working men and women and leaving children abandoned—it is not, nor has it ever been, about what is "right."
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Comentarios (1)
tomas el anglo dijo:
I suspect that the same chimps who hoot with glee at this news are the same chimps who would complain because they had to wait longer in the drive-through lane for their Crappy Meal.
Come on, guys. Is it really so hard? The illegosos come here to work in (often) lousy, thankless low-wage jobs that a lot of Americans don't want to do -- so is it asking too much to just leave them the hell alone?
And I question the value of the identity-theft assertion. Congress has had years to pass stronger legislation and put stronger penalties in place to deter and punish those who would engage in identity theft, and they've done little or nothing. So IMO, trying to demonize Esteban and Marisol over at Mickey D's is nothing but bullshit misdirection on this topic. Rounding up the Hispanic fast-food workers might make the mouth-breathers *feel* like something's being done, but when it actually turns out to be some Russian kid living in Irkutsk who's jacked their credit card numbers off of eBay, you never hear the mouth-breathers getting all exercised about that. I think that the mouth-breathers clearly have their collective head up their collective butt on this.
Our host is dead-on when he says that it's not about what's "right." It's about bullshit racism and picking a convenient, powerless set of targets. For shame, ICE.
Palabras por tomas el anglo spat forth on el 1 de Octubre, 2007 at 07:00 AM