Yesterday the Republican Reich demonstrated their heartlessness in a couple of ways. First, their Brown Shirt thugs, aka ICE, raided several poultry plants in Mississippi and detained almost 700 law-abiding workers, but undocumented, workers. Millionaire plant owners had imported most of them years before to replace black workers, because they were trying to unionize. The raids terrorized the detainees, their families, and Latinos nationwide. Second, Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, continued his hate campaign against Latinos, even while visiting El Paso, where he was pretending to support victims of a massacre he and other Republicans had inspired.
On Wednesday people across the United States were shocked by the news that ICE raids at a handful of Mississippi chicken plants had resulted in the largest single-state immigration enforcement action in U.S. history, with nearly 700 people detained. As surprising as the news was, coming on the heels of a deadly mass shooting that targeted Latinos, perhaps just as surprising was the location of the raids in the deep, rural South.
The prominence of Latinos in Mississippi’s chicken plants and communities today was not accidental. It was calculated, strategic and intimately related to deeply rooted structures of labor exploitation in the region. Beginning in the 1990s, Latin American immigrants were recruited to the state by the poultry industry, where they arrived to work in some of the lowest-paid and most dangerous jobs in the country. This week’s raids target deeply rooted workers and families and leave behind a devastated community, while also terrorizing many others across the country.
The roots of the heavily Latino workforces in Southern poultry plants lie in the growing American appetite for chicken during the 1990s, and the stirrings of a labor movement by African American plant workers. As poultry production expanded, workers’ pay and opportunities remained stagnant. As a result, labor organizing among the plants’ predominantly African American workforce began to gain traction.
Facing the prospect of its first union contract negotiations and in search of more “flexible” (read: exploitable and expendable) workers, in 1994 a chicken plant in Morton, Miss., headed to Miami in search of immigrant labor… [emphasis added]
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Both Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell had segments on this.
ICE Raid Speaks Louder Than Donald Trump Platitudes On El Paso Shooting
If Republicans had hearts they would be kept on ICE.
What President Donald Trump Was Really Doing During El Paso Visit
Trump’s total lack of empathy is a major reason Republicans chose him as Fuhrer of their Reich.
Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!
RESIST!!
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Dumpy, and his legacy are going to leave deep emotional scars, probably create enemies for the country, which we seem to be so adept at doing (and then looking askance at them and wondering why they might possibly hate the hell out of us!
The greed that runs the fear of unions, that runs the GOP, that the Koch Boys, and their ilk, represent, is damned insatiable, damn the consequences!
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
As we resist, we must continue to resist with compassion.
P. S. “A chicken in every pot” – Herbert Hoover
“No chicken for you.” – Donald John Trump
Cruelty IS the point!
It led to the resignation of an agent in the Foreign Diplomatic Service who fortunately wrote a scathing Op-Ed in WaPo that excoriated Trump and his entire administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-can-no-longer-justify-being-a-part-of-trumps-complacent-state-so-im-resigning/2019/08/08/fed849e4-af14-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html
omg. No words. OK, just a few…
This was absolutely heartbreaking, it still is, as this continues.
I still think Miller is behind all this sheet too, as he’s unabated in his hate.
No compassion nor caring for another. Horrible!!
Congrats Pat!
From what I have heard, this roundup focused on people who dared to speak out against averse working conditions and low wages. What about the children who were in school, and now have effectively no homes? This is sickening. We CANNOT allow this to become the New Normal. We must fight like all-get-out to put this country back on progressive feet. We MUST get out the progressive vote, and we MUST win BIG in 2020. That could be the last chance we have to turn this country around by peaceful means. There are only two alternatives, and both are ugly in the extreme.
It was heartbreaking watching the news yesterday with the heartless iCE creeps rounding up these innocent people who had their children watching crying away.
It’s a disgrace to our country to see how tRump could have them doing such hatred things like tearing these families apart. May tRump, his repug cronies and iCe all rot in flipping he*l forever.
Watch what they’re doing, don’t listen to what they say. Sadly that seems to apply to clear-thinking Americans only; Trumpians only hear what Trump says and, on top of that, believe every lie that comes out of his mouth.
Both Rachel and Lawrence are no longer capable of keeping the utter disgust they feel for this administration, and Trump in particular, off their faces and out of their voices. It is the same disgust we all feel here for Trump and his cronies and for their complete lack of empathy. That lack of empathy is one of the signs of sociopathy, by the way, and it seems the hallmark of every right-wing politician these days.
I’m sure the ICE raid on those 700 undocumented workers, but not on any of their employers, was probably in the works as part of the Trump campaign long before the El Paso terrorist massacre of Latinos, but anyone with an ounce of empathy, or working brain matter, would have called it off and not have it coincide with Trump’s own visit ‘to comfort’ El Paso. But things have gone so completely overboard under this administration that it doesn’t matter at all, not one iota. Trump will get away with it, he’s not a racist and his base will love him for it.
Heil Trump.
Thanks, Hugs, and Amen to all.