Postville -Green faced counter protester?

[Rambis]

"I don't think the american tax payer should be funding benefit packages for illegal aliens"
WTF!!!!!!!!!! They pay social security taxes that they will never get back. Why does KCRG let people spew opinion and not say wait a minute this is her opinion it is not fact!



Mr. Phelan,

I just wanted to express deep disappointment with the coverage of the counter protest in Postville. The woman who had the green painted face said quote…

“I don’t think that Americans should be paying the benefit packages for illegal aliens”

That is what I can only call her opinion and has no basis in fact. There should at least have been a disclaimer after her comments stating that was her opinion. For the not so news savvy person watching may now believe that American tax payers are providing some sort of fictitious benefit package to people that were brought here illegally by the plant and its administration.

I don’t often complain but this was just something that seemed to be fact that was indeed one opinion.

Thank you for the time-

[cyberswede]

1. nice! glad you sent it.

i hope you get a reply

[rurallib]

2. way to go!

I can't stand to watch local news anymore. You cite the reason why.

[CornField]

3. My favorite protestors from Sunday

This was a group that set up camp in the downtown -- at first on the corner directly between the two opposing camps, but later moved further down the street. They didn't really give a damn about the immigration debate that was happening and told all gathered in the town that it made no difference where you were now. It was much more important, they said, to know where you'd be after death.

Here's a link to more of my photos:
http://iowaindependent.com/2935/photos-postville-immigration-rally

I'll also have a video up today or tomorrow. It was quite a weekend.

[Debi]

4. Well....did you ask? n/t

[CornField]

6. Uh no

I told them that the way my life has been going that I was pretty sure I was already in hell.

[Peacetrain]

5. Three or four years ago, there was a documentary on Postville

on IPTV, I wonder if this is the same group. If I remember the documentary correctly, A Hasidic group had moved to Postville and opened a meat plant. Is this the same company that owns the plant that is hiring the Guatemalans?

[CornField]

7. Yes, same group

Although there are few immigrants from Guatemala left -- most of those detained on May 12 were from Guatemala. (Second largest group hailed from Mexico.)

Immediately after the raid, the company appealed to workers at their Gordon, Neb. plant. I believe within a week they were all either headed back to Nebraska or wanted to be.

Next came a temporary labor force, hired by a Waterloo firm. The firm pulled out after 10 days, citing horrible conditions.

After that a head hunter/staffing agency in Texas began recruiting workers from homeless shelters there. I'm not sure if any of these folks are left either.

The latest round seems to be immigrants from Ethiopia or Somalia.

My understanding is the plant is still not up to pre-raid production levels.

If you want to learn more about the Orthodox Jewish family that owns the plant, google Rubashkin (the family's last name).

[Peacetrain]

8. Thank you cornfield for the information..

I just finished googling the information, and I am shocked. They are big big Republican funders from open secrets also. Unbelievable