Pirate's Cove

Good. And the Feds are not wasting time, either

LAUREL, Miss. — In another large-scale workplace immigration crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally.

Numerous agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a factory belonging to Howard Industries Inc., which manufactures electrical transformers, among other products.

As of late Monday afternoon, no criminal charges had been filed, said Barbara Gonzalez, an agency spokeswoman, but she said that dozens of workers had been “identified, fingerprinted, interviewed, photographed and processed for removal from the U.S.”  

Buh bye! That’s the way to do it. Catch and deport. Of course, you know what is next, right?

An immigrant rights group in Jackson, Miss., the state capital, was critical of Monday’s raid, saying families with children were involved.

“It’s horrific what ICE is doing to these families and these communities,” said Shuya Ohno, a spokesman for the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance. “It’s just hard to imagine that this is the United States of America.”

It’s just hard to imagine a country founded on Law attempting to uphold The Law. If Ms. Ohno doesn’t like it, there are plenty of other countries in the world to move to. Maybe she would like Venezuala, where the president can rewrite their Constitution at a whim.

Amazingly, the word “illegal” appears once in the whole story.