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05/19/08 01:03 PM

Does anyone else think that shackling immigrants whose only crime is a non-violent, status offense is immoral?

05/19/08 01:36 PM

interesting interview but appeared to cut off early right after desciption of makeshift court room in the Electric Park ballroom ..

i tried to listen several times but that was as far as it would play

05/19/08 02:57 PM

Let’s review the “other side “of the coin: These illegals would not have been “rounded” up for violating Home Land Security Laws if they were not HIRED to break the laws set by the Federal Gov. so how much “accountability” is being dispensed to those who did the hiring. And pls don’t insult me by saying that those who did the hiring were not as savvy as the illegals. Cheap labor is better for business than to stick to the letter of the law (Immigration Law) so I ‘ll bet there was a whole lot of “turning of heads” in the hiring process, “to quote one of the Rabbi’s response, “Not my department” when asked if he knew anything about the illegals. If I ever used that “excuse “ for attempting to excape culpability as a medical professsional at a hospital, I would be without a job today. I think I recall that “ENRON” CEOs used similiar excuse , when time came to come clean and find out the TRUTH. Ummmmmm

05/19/08 04:00 PM

Dear friends all undocumented workers should be deported and sent back to their countrys of origin, americans are tired of all these illegall allliens god bless iowa i use to live in iowa a fantastic state .

05/19/08 06:18 PM

The first to be sent out with his pants off, is the older Rubashkin, followed by his greedy mamzers, only then, the illegals.
They were doing what these white trash owners told them to do:
Kill the animals, fast, skin them alive, so that we can be richer”
Shame on anyone who eats and buys these sickos “products”
Come back to NY Rubaskhin, and become decent citizens!

05/19/08 09:41 PM

I say send the illegals home, round up the greedy criminal scum that snub labor and immigration law by hiring them.  “Undocumented workers?” Calling illegal aliens “undocumented workers” is like calling drug pushers “unlicensed pharmacists.”

05/19/08 10:22 PM

Pity ... Aaron’s chickens were the best. It’s not the workers who are at fault, but the laws. I will miss Aaron’s chickens mightily.

05/19/08 10:39 PM

If the company was simply negligent is one thing, but if deliberate, then being Jewish, I am embarrassed and ashamed.  Thank G-d for all the Kosher food processors that are not negligent and also honest and law abiding.

05/20/08 12:13 AM

If Shop-Rite Supermarkets’ Kosher Experience stopped selling Aaron’s fresh meats, I might become a customer again.  Shame, shame on a glatt kosher provider using Aaron’s Meat when these problems were well known for such a long time (the way they treat the animals and the workers).

05/20/08 12:15 AM

Having worked with illegal immigrants in Federal custody - being threatened with a long sentence is the way federal prosecutors get people to say “thank you” for sending me go home to my starving relatives!

These are people, here working to feed their families. Is this really a crime? Was my grandfather guilty when he fled anti jewish riots in Russia against the law? I have a close friend who smuggled jews out of Morocco in the 60’s - he broke the law, he was a wanted man -in my opinion unjust laws should be broken.

The true travesty is that even legal immigrants who break the law even in minor ways can be deported. One of my patient’s when I worked in a federal prison was a wife and a mother. She had a green card but got into a fight with her husbands mistress IN HER OWN HOME. She was arrested and charged with a 4th degree felony and was being eported. The other woman moved into her home and was raising her children! That is a travesty.

Deporting teenagers who have lived here since they were babes in arms, do not speak “their native tongue” being deported for minor offenses - that is a travesty.

Earning money to survive is not a chet.