ICE Raids

[Mike M (the other one)]

(07-31-2019, 12:38 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I sure do. Because in your explanation of your postings you used the term "our government" instead of ICE. So your "never saying" is as close as we're going to get to  your admitting the stories have nothing to do with ICE, much less the raids.

Yep, two different organizations and he changed the "line in the sand" again. It's amusing how frequently that happens.

[GMDino]

2011

[GMDino]

How many employers were arrested?

— Coolmofo (@coolmofo) August 8, 2019

 

[GMDino]

My mother has almost completely turned me away from MSNBC.  Not that I watched a ton before...I don't watch much television at all let alone the news.  I prefer to watch bits and read about the stories. But she will have it on all day...every day.



But last night as I was looking for some background noise after dinner I hit Chris Hayes and stopped for a minute and saw his opening monolog talking about a story I had read about earlier in the day.

His commentary on how Trump is able to hurt some groups but not help others is dead on.

And it demonstrates how Trump's immigration "policies" (such as they are) are nothing more than nationalism run wild.  

He is making no one's life better or safer with the vast majority of his deportation but rather simply filling his personal desire to get rid of "undesirables".

[GMDino]

More on the plant raided this week.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/08/01/koch-foods-mississippi-pay-3-75-m-settle-discrimination-lawsuits/875688002/

Quote:Mississippi poultry supplier to pay $3.75M to settle discrimination lawsuits

An eight-year legal fight has ended with a Mississippi poultry supplier agreeing to pay $3.75 million and other concessions to Hispanic workers to settle two discrimination lawsuits.

Koch Food of Mississippi LLC agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by 11 workers at the Morton plant and another filed on behalf of the workers by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The agreement was filed Tuesday in federal court in Jackson. U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan signed off on the three-year consent decree outlining the settlement terms.



The workers and EEOC alleged Koch subjected Hispanic employees and female employees to a hostile work environment and disparate treatment based on their race/national origin and sex, and then retaliated against those who complained.


The workers alleged that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday activities at work, such as using bathrooms, taking leave or requesting job transfers. Further, a class of Hispanic employees was subject to retaliation in the form of discharge and other adverse actions after complaining.

In addition to the $3.75 million, Koch Foods will take specific actions to prevent future discrimination, including providing anti-discrimination training to employees; creating a 24-hour hotline for reporting discrimination complaints in English and Spanish; and posting anti-discrimination policies and notices in its workplace in English and Spanish.


The workers were represented by Southern Migrant Legal Services of Tennessee and Jackson attorney Rob McDuff.


"Our clients were very brave in making the choice to speak out,” said Caitlin Berberich, an attorney with SMLS who represented some of the workers. “We are pleased that after eight years of litigation, our clients and Koch Foods were able to resolve this matter, including implementation of practices that will hopefully prevent the types of abuses alleged in this case from happening in the future. This was important to our clients from the beginning.” 

In a statement, Koch Foods said it has long maintained that the allegations of mistreatment were contrived and fabricated as part of a coordinated effort to obtain work authorizations through U visas. Although it has sought to hire only authorized workers, the company was in the process of obtaining discovery on the U visa information on the plaintiffs when the case was settled, according to Koch’s statement.


“We are pleased the EEOC and the plaintiffs have cooperated to resolve this litigation," Bobby Elrod, the company’s corporate director of Human Resources, said in the statement.

"Koch Foods is committed to continuing to provide a work environment where each person is treated with dignity as we implement the consent decree in this matter."


The workers’ lawsuit alleged sexual harassment, retaliation, and national origin and race discrimination. After investigating the complaints brought by the 11 workers, EEOC filed its own suit on June 29, 2011, for similar allegations alleging discrimination against a class of Hispanic workers at Koch chicken processing plant in Morton. The company has two other plants in Mississippi.

[NATI BENGALS]

I bet it will be easy replacing those 700 workers. Who wouldnt want to work for cheap on a stank nasty farm shoveling chicken shit and butchering animals.

[BmorePat87]

(08-09-2019, 09:27 AM)GMDino Wrote: My mother has almost completely turned me away from MSNBC.  Not that I watched a ton before...I don't watch much television at all let alone the news.  I prefer to watch bits and read about the stories.  But she will have it on all day...every day.  



But last night as I was looking for some background noise after dinner I hit Chris Hayes and stopped for a minute and saw his opening monolog talking about a story I had read about earlier in the day.

His commentary on how Trump is able to hurt some groups but not help others is dead on.

And it demonstrates how Trump's immigration "policies" (such as they are) are nothing more than nationalism run wild.  

He is making no one's life better or safer with the vast majority of his deportation but rather simply filling his personal desire to get rid of "undesirables".

This one is tough. Guy had a criminal history. Do we have an obligation to keep spending money on him every time he commits a crime?

At the same time, he appeared to have some mental health issues. Somehow he was the only member of his family who didn't become a citizen when he came of age.

Either way, sending him on a flight to a country he had never visited with no ability to communicate with anyone there and no contacts was essentially a death sentence given his medical needs. 

[Dill]

(08-09-2019, 09:27 AM)GMDino Wrote: My mother has almost completely turned me away from MSNBC.  Not that I watched a ton before...I don't watch much television at all let alone the news.  I prefer to watch bits and read about the stories.  But she will have it on all day...every day.  

A little disappointed in you Dino. 

Your mother clearly is a source of wisdom in your family, who deserves a closer listen.

[Vas Deferens]

(08-09-2019, 11:01 AM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: I bet it will be easy replacing those 700 workers. Who wouldnt want to work for cheap on a stank nasty farm shoveling chicken shit and butchering animals.

i fell into an internet rabbit hole and ended up finding out WAY too much about the machines that are used to slaughter chickens in those places.  im a realist when it comes to food processing.  i understand there are things that need to happen to put meat on everyone's table...  but holy shit.  couldn't pay me enough to take that job.

[GMDino]

(08-09-2019, 05:21 PM)Dill Wrote: A little disappointed in you Dino. 

Your mother clearly is a source of wisdom in your family, who deserves a closer listen.

She will happily tell you the same thing!  

[GMDino]

Meanwhile in the land of "Do as I say, not as I do...I have a business to run!"

NEW: Even as @realdonaldtrump railed against illegal immigration, his company quietly relied on its own crew of largely undocumented construction workers.
Two years into his presidency, it still does.https://t.co/abZALoZt0R

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) August 9, 2019

 

[*bfine32*]

Figured I'd but this here (apologies if it's whataboutisim) but it appears ICE also deports White Folks that cross illegally from the North. Even if they do it by accident:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/15/eileen-connors-british-family-ice-vacation-detention/

Quote:Originally from the United Kingdom, the two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3 during a visit to Vancouver when an animal ventured into the road, forcing them to make an unexpected detour. But before the family could get very far, flashing lights from a police car appeared in their rearview mirror. The officer that pulled them over was American — they had crossed the border.