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7.15.2008

Agriprocessors Labor Issues



While Agriprocessors is dealing with their legal troubles, they are ignoring the legal issues of their former employees. Not only did Agri put their workers in the position to be deported or to stay in jail for 6-8 months because of social security fraud (even though the workers don't even know what a social security number is) they are leaving the rest of their families to starve. I guess since their workers were illegal immigrants (who Agri imported from their native countries) they have no responsibility to help out their families who now have no one to support them.
As the New York Times editorial on the same subject argues:
No one is denying that the workers were on the wrong side of the law. But there is a profound difference between stealing people’s identities to rob them of money and property, and using false papers to merely get a job. It is a distinction that the Bush administration, goaded by immigration extremists, has willfully ignored. Deporting unauthorized workers is one thing; sending desperate breadwinners to prison, and their families deeper into poverty, is another.

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