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Aug 8, 2019 7:54AM PDT
ICE arrests 680 undocumented workers at Mississippi food processing plants

U.S. immigration authorities arrested nearly 700 people at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi on Wednesday in what federal officials said could be the largest worksite raid in a single state.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement they detained about 680 people who were working illegally at the plants. They said they also seized business records as part of a federal criminal investigation.

Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, an industry group, said meat processing companies do their best to hire legal workers.


Any American chicken pluckers out there looking for work?

The price of chicken will go through the roof?

How does THAT work...people(illegal immigrants) just show up one morning and start work without being hired by the AMERICAN COMPANY?

Any chance these AMERICAN COMPANIES will be charged?

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So you DO have manipulators
Aug 10, 2019 8:17AM PDT

THANK YOU

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Yep, and some are Canadians
Aug 10, 2019 9:19AM PDT
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RE:some are Canadians
Aug 10, 2019 10:57AM PDT
These are the Canadians I watch that are living in LalaLand as TONI H calls it

PS Many Canadian comedians have been influenced by American and British culture and humour. They blend the comic traditions of these cultures with Canadian humour while maintaining an outsider perspective, the latter providing a separation or ironic distance which has allowed for keen observational humour, impressions and parody.[4][5]:201–204 Comedy critics have described this as absorbing and adapting a dominant culture.[6]

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The Last Canadian Comedian...
Aug 10, 2019 11:35AM PDT

...I actually enjoyed seeing on USA TV was John Candy.

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Invaded! There it is again!
Aug 10, 2019 12:50PM PDT

To the barricades, Americans!
Trebek, you'll be first against the wall!
Sorry.
This game show host will be first against the wall when the invasion is stopped.
Who is Trebek, eh?

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Toni, Toni, Toni.
Aug 10, 2019 12:13PM PDT

More opinions presented as facts.
"MOST of the manipulative money comes from both coasts"
Manipulative a loaded word. Most, unsupported. How much?
"they are nearly always liberal" How many?
"has 98% of the media doing their bidding" Support for that?
"to sway elections when the Dem party does it every day (even if it means breaking laws) and gets away with it.....until now."
Examples?
Which laws?
Until now- indictments? Trials? Convictions? Hillary emails ...?

Relevance to OP? Chicken, labor laws, worker exploitation, remember?

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They can't be exploited if
Aug 10, 2019 4:35PM PDT

1. the liberals didn't advocate for them and offer freebies as enticements

2. they weren't here ILLEGALLY in the first place

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a book that includes a couple of Mexicans?!
Aug 9, 2019 4:15PM PDT
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Workers
Aug 8, 2019 10:30AM PDT

will be replaced quite easily, I imagine....especially since Trump doubled the number of worker visas this year (possibly in anticipation of this situation that's been planned for a while already).

As for 'showing up and start working'.....word of mouth of job openings spreads pretty quickly.

According to some news reports and interviews done, the employers will be investigated to see if their claims of 'I used eVerify' pan out and if not, then they will be charged....and probably fined heavily.

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RE:word of mouth of job openings spreads pretty quickly.
Aug 8, 2019 12:16PM PDT

AND it spreads even quicker when it's the employer telling present employees about the openings.

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You don't think that the organizers
Aug 9, 2019 4:54AM PDT

of the caravans aren't telling those people directly where to go if they get across the border? Hell, even the videos of the raid at "KOCH FOODS" had a "HIRING" sign hanging on the fence, so the employees already know and spread the word.

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RE:"HIRING" sign hanging on the fence,
Aug 9, 2019 6:59AM PDT

And this sign was put up BY?

The employees?

With the shootings going on at the malls in America...perhaps some mall employees will feel more secure working inside a chicken plucking plant, and the malls will be hiring the illegal immigrants to work in malls instead of American born citizens.

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The sign didn't say
Aug 9, 2019 9:49AM PDT

"Hiring ILLEGALS...come in and apply", JP......In my lifetime, I've seen plenty of signs in business windows by employers saying they are hiring....I don't remember ANY of them being put up by employEES but that doesn't mean that those already employed there aren't telling their friends/relatives who are looking for work that a job is available.

Stop with your inane crap, please.

And just how many 'mall' shootings have there been that you would be stupid enough to suggest that?

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RE: I've seen plenty of signs in business windows
Aug 9, 2019 12:50PM PDT
I've seen plenty of signs in business windows by employers saying they are hiring.

THANK YOU!

It took a while but .....
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And your point is what?
Aug 10, 2019 4:58AM PDT

That employers advertise for help on a regular basis? What has that got to do with employEES telling their friends (word of mouth) that they can get jobs? Those signs do NOT say "hiring ILLEGALS, spread the word".

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RE:And just how many 'mall' shootings have there been that y
Aug 9, 2019 1:02PM PDT
And just how many 'mall' shootings have there been that you would be stupid enough to suggest that?

stupid?

Speaking of stupid.

I read a post that you make about sleeping on the floor because they didn't want to get shot in their bed?

WHY? ..........They didn't want blood on the mattress?

How many have been shot while in their bed? How many were saved by sleeping on the floor?

IF your response contains the letters "DEM".....PLEASE provide a link.
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You are one sick puppy
Aug 10, 2019 5:03AM PDT
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Speaking of canines
Aug 10, 2019 5:33AM PDT

I can't teach an OLD DOG/YOU new tricks OR as we say up "You can't tell a Heinz pickle nothing!"

YOUR mission was to show proof where people were telling their children to sleep on the floor (and you mentioned DEMs telling them to do that).

Mitch?...The Turtle?.....HOW would HE get in a bed? HE is on the floor all the time.

HOW would they stab him...HE has a protective shell...no need for a Ballistic Blanket.

Still NO direct response to my question about YOUR claims....HO HUM..

RE:. I would have used a stronger word

Don't get your hackles up, TONI HACKLEr

To raise one’s hackles and to get one’s hackles up means to become irritated or angry, to become defensive, to prepare to attack. The phrase is often used in the negative, as in: “Don’t get your hackles up.” Hackles are hairs or a ruff of fur on the back of an animal’s neck that raises when the animal is alerted to danger or is preparing to attack.

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WHERE did I say Dems told
Aug 10, 2019 5:42AM PDT

parents to make their kids sleep on the floor?

After Chicago last week, there was an interview with a mother who said she and her neighbors were ALL having their kids sleeping on the floor. I believe I provided a link to that story already. But in any event, I DID provide a link in my post you are replying to about children being killed by bullets coming through their walls from the outside. That proves what you call 'my mission'. You just need to learn how to read, I guess.

And you are still outrageously sick, JP. "blood on the mattress"??

AND you still haven't answered the 'mall' question. I haven't forgotten how you ducked that one.

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that's direct personal attack
Aug 10, 2019 8:50AM PDT

If she used a psuedonym that might be permissable, but she uses her actual name, as do I. I doubt you do the same. I'm surprised Lee allows you to continue here.

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I noticed you couldn't answer my question about
Aug 10, 2019 5:04AM PDT

mall shootings though, could you? Divert and deflect as usual.

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RE:And just how many 'mall' shootings have there been
Aug 10, 2019 12:55PM PDT
And just how many 'mall' shootings have there been

MORE than there have been MASS SHOOTINGS at chicken plucking plants.
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YOU'RE the one who brought up
Aug 10, 2019 4:37PM PDT

mall shootings and still can't answer the question.

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RE:As for 'showing up and start working'.
Aug 8, 2019 12:36PM PDT

Buddy told me you were hiring....

Well, I wasn't planning on hiring, but since your buddy told you I was hiring, I guess I have to hire you.

Sign here.

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700 people
Aug 8, 2019 3:30PM PDT

What happens to these people?
Do they get put in detention and await a court date?
Considering the back log in the immigration courts that could be years.

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Just read that about half have been released.
Aug 8, 2019 3:42PM PDT

Try the usual news web sites for details but one US citizen was tazed and cuffed before release.

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That does answer my question
Aug 8, 2019 5:20PM PDT

ICE arrest them and they get put on a bus.
The bus takes them somewhere.....where is this somewhere?
I'll assume this somewhere is where they are further processed.
If they pass the processing they are released.
If not now what?

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All good questions.
Aug 8, 2019 6:08PM PDT
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Yep. Good ol' Herblock.
Aug 8, 2019 7:21PM PDT

Walt Kelly also. His strip Pogo was dropped from many papers, while a couple that disagreed with him at least just moved it to the editorial pages. Where Herbert Bloch already was.

Self-censorship has happened already, in response to statements on climate change- which phrase was prohibited by a government official who has no oversight of the Constitution. Most scientists obeyed.

Your system.

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That's what's happening, Rob.
Aug 9, 2019 6:52AM PDT