Life in Glenn Beck's America

[BobcatJH]

From the "It can't happen here" files, we have the latest example of life in Glenn Beck's America, an America where those treated so shabbily today may very well be you and I tomorrow. From the Salt Lake Tribune:

If only for a few minutes, Maria felt like an "illegal alien" in her homeland - the United States of America.

She thought she was going on break from her job at the Swift & Co. meat processing plant here on Tuesday, but instead she and others were forced to stand in a line by U.S. immigration agents. Non-Latinos and people with lighter skin were plucked out of line and given blue bracelets.

The rest, mostly Latinos with brown skin, waited until they were "cleared" or arrested by "la migra," the popular name in Spanish for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), employees said.

"I was in the line because of the color of my skin," she said, her voice shaking. "They're discriminating against me. I'm from the United States, and I didn't even get a blue bracelet."

Maria was one of hundreds of plant employees targeted by federal agents. But she and her husband were the lucky ones - later Tuesday, they returned home to their three sons.

The federal agents raided the Swift & Co. meat processing plant early Tuesday morning after arrest warrants had been issued for 60 workers, part of "Operation Wagon Train," a nationwide investigation involving undocumented immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers of U.S. citizens to gain employment.

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Women were crying as they were handcuffed with plastic ties and put on the buses. Some weren't allowed to get their belongings from their lockers. Maria, who declined to use her last name, argued with an agent because she was getting the coat for her 34-year-old niece, Blanca, who was arrested.

"She told me, 'Do you think it's going to be cold in Mexico?'" Maria said, holding back tears. "I've never seen people get treated como animales."

Como animales. Like animals.

[MADem]

1. How ........ ........ UN subtle of them...... ...... I mean, really!!!

[rurallib]

2. Just to add insult to injury - raid took place on Our Lady of Guadelupe

feast day. The biggest feast in the Mexican culture.
On another note, I just heard that Beck considers himself to be a comedian. A comedian!

[WCGreen]

4. Like Hitler....

Man that guy was Funnnnnny......

[CoffeeCat]

3. We're "rounding up" people....

...and I think it's sickening.

We are heading toward a very slippery slope here.

I don't trust that this government cares about the illegal immigrant issue. Our border
is leaking like a sieve. This is a government that gets off on torturing and then covering
up their crimes. This is a government that has secret prisons and legal protections for
government agents who do torture.

I do not trust these bastards with this power.