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Largest immigration raid EVER in United States

chicagotribune.com — Federal officials say the raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in northeast Iowa is the largest of its type in U.S. history. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say 390 people have been arrested on Immigration charges after a Monday raid at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville.

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  • thirdcoastborn, on 05/13/2008, -5/+10***** the feds
  • ColonelTribune, on 05/13/2008, -0/+13Anyone need a job?
  • USNavyBlue, on 05/14/2008, -1/+18More on the article (Conspiracy20 sent this - what an eye opener) : Feds: Drugs made at kosher meat plant http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108541.ht ...

    Wonder why the MSM just forgot to leave this part out? /sarcasm - The truth is COMING out whether they like it or not!
    • 911ArtStudent, on 05/14/2008, -1/+11I wonder if the methamphetamines turned out by this plant carried the kosher label.
    • yellowcakewalk, on 05/14/2008, -2/+11They would have busted more, but the word got out on MegaPhone.
  • lazerus9, on 05/14/2008, -1/+15......Kosher Krank
  • PlagueOfMorons, on 05/14/2008, -1/+18I've followed the story of AgriProcessors and the Rubashkins for 8 years. There is far more to this than this news story brings out. A book, "Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America", was written on these people and this company long ago. It details how Russian Jews from New York took over a town in Iowa and set up a massive criminal operation there within a kosher meat processing company. It's a story of truly horrendous inhumane and criminal behavior and exploitation. Fraud, brutality, rape, criminal takeover of an entire town. The Rubashkins are evil people. Court records all over. This drug bust is the least of it.
    • Conspiracy20, on 05/14/2008, -1/+13Wow, Thanks for the history
    • 911ArtStudent, on 05/14/2008, -1/+13Thanks Plague!

      Fascinating book on this topic: Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America

      From the Amazon.com Review:
      "Amazon.com
      Postville, Iowa (population 1,478), seems an unlikely place to find a sizable Jewish population, let alone an ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher population. It is, after all, in the heart of pork country, and the world headquarters of the Lubavitchers is far away in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. But when the Hygrade meat processing plant, just outside Postville, went belly-up, threatening the town with decline, Sholom Rubashkin bought it and turned it into a glatt kosher processing plant, complete with shochtim and a rabbinical inspectorate. By the late 1980s, "Postville had more rabbis per capita than any other city in the United States, perhaps the world."

      The enterprise was a huge international success, with its kosher meats exported even to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The Jewish population grew to 150, and they were rich. The town was saved, and the people were grateful. All's well that ends well? Not quite. The Hasidim kept to themselves, did things their own way, and basically had no interest in integrating into Postville. And why would they? Their laws are strict, their mission clear, their community defined by race and religion. They are not interested in watermelon socials or coffee klatches at the diner. Their little boys do not swim with their little girls, are not educated together, and do not go on play dates with goyim. Small-town Iowans, on the other hand, are very friendly. They know each other's news, they support each other's businesses, they wish each other Merry Christmas, they want you to feel at home. They don't like that the new townspeople stomp up the street hunched over, talking in a foreign language and looking straight through them when greeted. They really don't like it when one of the newcomers drives around town with a 10-foot candelabra strapped to his car playing music at full volume for eight consecutive winter nights. They don't actually know about menorahs or Hanukkah.

      Into this comes secular Jew Stephen Bloom, a professor at the University of Iowa. By the time he arrived in Postville, the town was riven along religious lines. One of the townspeople was running for mayor on the sole platform of annexation of the land on which the plant stood. Rubashkin was threatening that he'd shut the plant and leave if that came to pass. Bloom closely considers both sides, and the result is a wonderful book. It is a fascinating tale of culture clash in the American heartland: the John Deere cap meets the black fur hat. It is a book about identity and community and what it means to be American. It covers all the things you aren't supposed to talk about at the dinner table--religion, politics, and even sex. It is full of suspense: Will the plant be annexed? Will the Jews leave? And it is also Bloom's exploration of his own sense of belonging. --J. Riches --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

      From Publishers Weekly
      Bloom's account of a vicious clash between the residents of a small, intensely Christian town and the group of Lubavitcher Jews who open a highly successful kosher slaughterhouse there is a model of sociological reportage and personal journalism. In 1987, after a Hasidic butcher from Brooklyn bought a slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, and began to relocate Jewish and immigrant workers to the area, the town began to change. While some residents were suspicious and anti-Semitic, most were happy to see the town rise above its previous financial destitution. But the Lubavitchers, who traditionally live and work within their own closely knit communities, were not interested in fitting into Postville, and many were dismissive of, or overtly hostile to, its original citizens. After the Lubavitchers started buying real estate and exerting greater influence on the town's finances, longtime Postville residents began to feel marginalized, yet their reactions caused the Jews to become more isolationist. The slaughterhouse also caused problems: workers were paid below minimum wage and were uninsured, women workers were sexually harassed and fighting among the (often illegal) immigrant workers escalated. Finally, the town took legal action to gain more control over the slaughterhouse. Bloom, a professor at the University of Iowa, writes cleanly and with great insight and temperance about these events. As a secular Jew, he also weaves in his own story as he tries to find some common ground with the Lubavitchers. His book proves an illuminating meditation on contemporary U.S. culture and what it means to be an American. Agents, David Black and Gary Morris. BOMC and QPB selection; 8-city tour. (Oct.)"
      http://www.amazon.com/Postville-Clash-Cultures-Hea ...

      • EmporerTitus, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5Wow! It's like their ethnicity and religion make them immune from the consequences that an average American would suffer for committing the same criminal actions.
        Someone should write a book about the "Special Relationship" between American Courts and the Jews they make every effort to appease and treat with kid gloves. (To treat someone with kid gloves means to tread carefully, perhaps too carefully, for fear of reprisal.)
        Any day now, we'll find out that the long-delayed AIPAC spy-conspiracy-espionage-treason trail has been put off yet again...
  • 911ArtStudent, on 05/14/2008, -1/+15FTA:
    "-- A supervisor taped-over the eyes of a Guatemalan man with duct tape, then struck the man with a meat hook that caused a serious injury. The source believed the Guatemalan man was an illegal immigrant and told him to report the incident to supervisors, but the man refused because he thought he would be fired.

    -- A Rabbi who worked at the plant berated a group of employees with vulgar language before hurling meat at them."

    I wonder if the meat is still kosher even after the rabbi throws it at the workers?
    • USNavyBlue, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4As much as I can't stand illegal aliens coming to this country and literally taking jobs away from the American people (along with all the crime, etc... they do bring with them), however illegal aliens DON"T deserve (nor anyone else) to be treated so inhumanly! This is WRONG!
  • AlwaysAwake, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6This is just grandstanding, window dressing, to convince the gullible, THEY are really doing something about illegal immigration. In fact, THEY want illegal immigrants who generally work harder, longer, and cheaper than American workers. This whole issue is just a diversion, like many others to ensure we do not pay attention to what THEY are really up to. Get wise people, before it is too late. That time is coming sooner than you think.
  • 911ArtStudent, on 05/14/2008, -1/+11This is SLAVE labor. Taping over the eyes of a worker with duck tape and beating him with a meat hook means that this is hardly voluntary "at will" labor.
  • N987SA, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7It remains to be seen if any real punishment is meted out to the perpetrators. I have seen cases where murder suspects have evaded extradition from the US because they are of the "Chosen Tribe". This may well be a "limited hang out".
  • EmporerTitus, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6Now we know why Mossad is infiltrating the DEA, bugging their offices and visiting them at their unlisted home addresses!
    "A highly detailed DEA report that was acquired by French intelligence analysts documented 180 cases of Israeli art students infiltrating DEA facilities. It provided names, drivers' license numbers, addresses and phone numbers of the Israelis. [DEA report 6/01; Insight 3/11/02] http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/globemovers.htm
  • EmporerTitus, on 05/14/2008, -1/+7The cruelty of these primitive, death worshiping, clannish cave people is well known in animal-rights circles.
    AgriProcessors were "ripping the tracheas and esophagi out of fully conscious animals, dumping them out of pens into pools of their own blood. The animals stand and bellow and attempt to escape for up to three and even four minutes in some cases.... Jewish law forbids stunning them first." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140117,00.html
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