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Hey Media, show us the illegal immigrant employers taken out in handcuffs please? (Original Post) pwb Aug 2019 OP
Turns out that filing an I-9 for new hires is optional now? htuttle Aug 2019 #1
I saw a bit of video on one of the cable news shows... kentuck Aug 2019 #2
It's a hangar at the nearby airport underpants Aug 2019 #4
Something stinks about this whole mess. kentuck Aug 2019 #5
I think this was planned for some time underpants Aug 2019 #6
And let's just call them "illegal employers" StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #3
This was a shake down Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #7

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
1. Turns out that filing an I-9 for new hires is optional now?
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 08:36 AM
Aug 2019

Who knew

Caveat: You might need to be a registered Republican to actually get away with that.

kentuck

(111,085 posts)
2. I saw a bit of video on one of the cable news shows...
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 08:40 AM
Aug 2019

It showed the raid going on. It appeared to be a large area, with a steel-link fence around it. It already looked like some sort of compound or holding area? A lot of questions remain.

underpants

(182,788 posts)
4. It's a hangar at the nearby airport
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 09:02 AM
Aug 2019

Heard on NPR this morning. They had stations set up per raid. Fingerprints scanners printers.

This was a well planned big operation.

kentuck

(111,085 posts)
5. Something stinks about this whole mess.
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 09:11 AM
Aug 2019

Anything to keep the people from talking about white nationalists killing people at Walmarts with military assault weapons...

underpants

(182,788 posts)
6. I think this was planned for some time
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 09:19 AM
Aug 2019

It will be interesting to see how Agra reacts to this. As I understand it they actively recruit along the border. We’ll see.

Johnny2X2X

(19,060 posts)
7. This was a shake down
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 09:28 AM
Aug 2019

Republican donors do not want immigration reform, they rely on cheap labor with the threat of deportation to keep them from complaining. I would bet my house that the Mississippi chicken processing plants that didn't get raided are big Trump donors. Zero chance the ones getting raided and shut down are Trump donors.

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