Hat-tip to ricardomath for the heads-up.When officials who have several options take one of the harshest options first, you know there's something wrong with the government.
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U.S. town turned into an open-air prison
by Charles Lewis, National Post
Published: Friday, August 15, 2008
The town of Postville, Iowa, population 2,000, has been turned into an open-air prison....[...snip...]...
On May 12, immigration officials swooped in to arrest 400 undocumented workers from Mexico and Guatemala at the local meat-packing plant, a raid described as the biggest such action at a single site in U.S. history. The raid left 43 women, wives of the men who were taken away, and their 150 children without status or a means of support. The women cannot leave the town, and to make sure they do not they have been outfitted with leg monitoring bracelets....[...snip...]...
"What kind of a government makes prisoners of 43 mothers who all have children and then says, ‘You can't work, you can't leave and can't stay?' That boggles the imagination."_____
Boggles the mind indeed.
Click the link in the title to read the whole thing.
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