The Wall Street Journal in Not Very Swift (12.21.06), an editorial made these important observations regarding the folly of the current anti-Latino immigrant crusades:
1) Immigration restrictionists would have us believe that harassing businesses like Swift...helps make America safer. But the Swift raids haven't uncovered any al Qaeda cells, merely a bunch of hard-working people trying to feed their families.
2) The operation involved more than 1,000 federal agents in six states. And of Swift's 15,000 or so employees, a grand total of 144 have been charged to date with misidentifying themselves to get hired.
3) Put another way, 1,000 federal agents that could have been focused on potential terrorists or other dangerous threats were instead focused on a meatpacking company that hires thousands of willing unskilled workers and pays them more than twice the minimum wage with full health benefits after six months.
4) How's that for government efficiency?
Posted by USTaino at 7:13 PM
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