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03/05/10
- Immigration Help Is On The Way To New York
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03/04/10 - Come Back,
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03/04/10
- Jim Bunning Was Pitching for America, by Patrick J.
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03/04/10
- The Obama Way: Bluster, Bully, Bribe, by Michelle
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03/03/10
- Thanks, Harry Reid! Can We Agree Trent Lott Was Right
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03/02/10 - Rosa
Pedalino Porter's American Story: Her Life In Three
Languages, But Only One Country, by Athena Kerry
03/02/10
- Union Boss Andy Stern and Barack Obama: Fiscal
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03/01/10 - Yeah, Yeah, “Attrition Through
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03/01/10 - Global Warming—Hoax Of The
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03/01/10 - Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy, by Paul
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02/28/10 - Samuel
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Hungarian Immigrant Is Shocked By “Un-American” Los
Angeles, Suggests We Emulate Singapore; etc.
02/26/10 - Memo From
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02/26/10
- Obama's Problems—and Ours, by Patrick J. Buchanan
02/26/10
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- Oba-Kabuki: A Box-Office Bomb, by Michelle Malkin
02/25/10
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02/24/10 - National
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- Remembering The Alamo, by Chuck Baldwin
02/23/10
- Corruptocrat Eric Holder's National Security Cover-Up,
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- 2010 AR Conference Held Against All Odds, by Jared
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02/22/10
- Liquidating The Empire, by Patrick J. Buchanan
02/22/10
- America’s First Suicide Bomber, by Paul Craig Roberts
02/21/10 - Without An Immigration Moratorium, How Long
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02/20/10 - Saturday
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Vendor Was A Central Figure In A Terrorism
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02/19/10 - Haiti And
Main Stream Media Immigration Enthusiasm: Nothing New,
by Joe Guzzardi
02/19/10
- View From Lodi, CA Pittsburgh, PA: Joe To Join Up With
Tea Party Express—In Frigid Erie, PA! by Joe Guzzardi
02/19/10 - I Wish
Joe Stack Had Not Killed Himself! by Chuck Baldwin
02/18/10 - That Mount
Vernon Statement: Beltway Right Ignores Immigration
(Again). But They Still Want Your Money, by A.W. Morgan
02/18/10
- Blaming The Tea Partiers: First Step To Criminalizing
Dissent, by Michelle Malkin
02/18/10
- Is This How Democracy Ends? by Patrick J. Buchanan
02/18/10
- Wall Street Oligarchs Eying Social Security, by Paul
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02/17/10 - Arizona
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(“McAmnesty”) McCain, by Richard Hoste
02/17/10
- Texas’ Debra Medina, The Fahad Hashmi case: Grounds
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02/17/10
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02/16/10
- The Other Stupid Things John Brennan Said, by
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02/15/10
- America—A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs, by Paul
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02/12/10
- A Warning To The Tea Party Nation, by Chuck Baldwin
02/12/10
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Economic Benefits Of Illegal Immigration, by Paul
Nachman
02/11/10
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02/11/10
- John Murtha: Requiem for a Corruptocrat, by Michelle
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02/10/10 -
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03/10/10 - Hispanic
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03/09/10 - An
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Suppression Of Immigration, by Vincent Chiarello
Why Did Obama Administration Drop
Immigration Charges Against Agriprocessors’ Rubashkin?
Howard
Foster, the
Chicago
lawyer we've
written about
repeatedly because
of his heroic pioneering use of the RICO statute in class
action suits against the employers of illegal aliens, has
just blogged [The
Obama Justice Dept. Is Not Enforcing The Laws Against Hiring
Illegal Immigrants,
March 9th, 2010] about the US Government's decision (which means the Obama
Administration's decision) not to prosecute Agriprocessors’
Sholom Rubashkin for immigration violations.
Foster writes (links added by VDARE.COM):
"Postville, Iowa was a small mainly Lutheran Midwestern town of 2,300
when Abraham Rubashkin and his son Sholom, members of the
fundamentalist
orthodox Jewish Lubavitch sect
and purveyors of kosher meat through their
Brooklyn, New
York-based company, Agriprocessors,
bought the town’s defunct meatpacking plant in 1987.
Soon more than a hundred Lubavitchers
moved from New York to Postville
to work for the kosher meat processing plant, primarily in
management positions.
The actual killing and processing of livestock was
done, as the nation learned in 2008, by a workforce of
Guatemalan and Mexican illegal immigrants using fake
identity documents.
However, Agriprocessors’ flagrant use of illegal
immigrants was an open secret among consumers of kosher
meats, discussed on numerous websites and debated in
orthodox synagogues around the country.
There were boycotts of the Company’s
Glatt
(meaning strict adherence to
Jewish dietary laws) products, marketed under the labels
'Aaron’s Best' and 'Rubashkin’s.'
“The situation persisted for years, actually decades, until the Bush
administration got serious about enforcing the laws against
hiring illegal immigrants (which I’ll refer to as ‘workplace
enforcement’) in 2007.
(It should be noted that President Bush’s interest in
workplace enforcement began only after the failure of
Congress to enact his
'comprehensive
immigration reform'
legislation, which would have allowed illegal immigrants to
live and work legally in the U.S.
upon payment of a modest fine in June 2007. Apparently,
the administration decided the country really did want
immigration enforcement after all.)
“In May 2008 the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (‘ICE’)
raided Agriprocessors, rounding up 389 illegal
workers. (Most of the remainder of the 968 employees had
apparently been tipped off and failed to show up for work on
the fateful day.) This was reportedly the largest
single ICE enforcement action since the agency’s creation
in 2003
as the successor to the I.N.S., which was abolished.
“Five hundred federal agents were deployed for the raid. The
subsequent processing of the prisoners was such a vast
undertaking that ICE had to use Postville’s large Exhibition
Center. At least 70 of the illegal workers pled guilty
at the Center and were promptly deported. Another 40
illegals were detained so they could testify as prosecution
witnesses against Sholom Rubashkin for hiring, harboring and
falsifying documents in the long-running scheme to employ a
mostly illegal workforce, which he, as CEO of
the plant, directed be paid $5-$6 per hour, below the
minimum wage. He also employed many underage workers,
for which the State of Iowa is prosecuting him.”
Foster goes on to note that, after all
this, on November 19, 2009, Obama's Justice Department
attorneys quietly dropped the immigration charges that had
been laid by Bush's Justice Department attorneys. [PDF][Feds
dismiss immigration charges against former Iowa kosher
slaughterhouse manager Sholom Rubashkin, By Grant
Schulte And William Petroski,
Des Moines Register,
November 19, 2009] This received virtually no publicity and
Foster himself, although an expert in the area, only learned
of it recently.
The Obama Administration’s excuse was
that it had convicted Rubashkin
on other charges, relating to his financial rather than
immigration crimes, and that the immigration charges would
be
"eclipsed"
by the financial ones which carry high
potential sentences. [Rubashkin
facing 1,250 years — but first, another trial,
Eric Fingerhut, JTA,
November 19, 2009]
But if the government felt that way,
why bother to hold one of the largest immigration raids in
US history?
Why was one of Rubashkin’s accomplices
sentenced only to a year’s probation and a $10 (!) fine? Why
does ICE’s website say only
“The Worksite
Enforcement Unit’s mission encompasses enforcement
activities intended to mitigate the risk of terrorist
attacks posed by unauthorized workers employed in secure
areas of our nation’s infrastructure”—i.e.
shows no
interest in prosecuting non-terrorist workplace violations?
The point of
immigration raids like this is to
send a message. But
the Obama Justice Department is interested in sending
another kind of message—the one
Steve Sailer
predicted in April, 2008: Obama's "Civil Rights" Vision: Quotas, Increased Crime, More Socialism.
Foster writes:
“A comparison of the enforcement efforts of the Justice Department’s
Civil Rights Division and ICE tells us where the
administration’s priorities are. The
Civil Rights Division
of DOJ is, in
the
words of
Attorney General Eric
Holder, ‘the
crown jewel’ of the Agency. It has a most impressive
and detailed website filled with evidence of a steady stream
of civil and criminal actions against employers who
allegedly violate the civil rights of their employees
(www.justice.gov/crt/emp/papers.php, visited March 9, 2010). I cannot find any evidence that the
Obama DOJ has voluntarily dismissed a civil rights case.
(Many are settled with consent decrees to enforce changes in
hiring procedures, but that is not a dismissal of the
charge.) If I am wrong about this, I would like to be told
so I can correct the record and explore the reasons for the
dismissal."
Well, I can answer that one. The answer
is that the Justice Department, acting with the approval of
Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, dropped
"a civil complaint
accusing three members of the
New Black Panther Party of intimidating voters in Philadelphia
during November's election…[EXCLUSIVE:
No. 3 at Justice OK'd Panther reversal,
by Jerry Seper,
Washington Times, July 30, 2009]
That sent a message, too. And if
you want to know what the message was, read
Washington Watcher's August, 2009 column,
Obama Protecting
Your Right To Vote—Unless You're White.
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