Immigration Officials Stage “Show” Raid
by Jeff Davis
There is one thing to be said about the illegal immigration issue: it can’t be swept under the rug. When ordinary Americans can’t walk into a grocery store or Wal-Mart without being deluged with the chatter of Spanish, when low-riders roar by on the street outside or hang in the parking lot swigging Corona beer with their salsa music blasting, when a trip to the emergency room means a four-hour wait to see a doctor because the place is clogged with Mexicans using it for their primary care center (and you’re bleeding on the floor and haggling with some black admin nurse about your insurance)–then it’s pretty hard to conceal the fact that America has an illegal alien problem. Americans SEE illegal immigration every day and public clamoring for something to be done about it increases every day.
Of course, the government has no intention whatsoever of doing anything about illegal immigration. Capitalism isn’t going to cut off its own cheap labor source. But things have gotten to the point where the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which seems to have replaced the old INS) is being compelled to stage a few well-publicized raids for show. According to a recent news article “Federal authorities on Friday raided a construction company accused of hiring illegal immigrants, detaining eight undocumented workers and arresting several other employees. Scores of agents fanned out in Douglas, along the Mexico border, and in Sierra Vista, about 50 miles northwest, in the raid on Sun Dry Wall & Stucco Inc.’s offices, a foreman’s home, the home of a suspected counterfeiter and eight work sites.” (more…)