From the Denver Post: Santos Gervacio Vicente-Vicente grows agitated and the words tumble out in increasingly rapid Spanish as he recalls the morning of Dec. 12, 2006.
"I still have fear," he says. "When I remember, it makes me very nervous. I was treated like an animal."
Vicente-Vicente is one of 273 workers arrested that Tuesday in Greeley in the largest immigration raid in U.S. history — and one of those continuing to deal with the fallout six years later.
Entire towns and thousands of residents — both citizens and undocumented immigrants — were affected when federal agents went to the headquarters of Swift & Co. on the north end of Greeley and five other company meatpacking plants in Texas, Utah, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota. The raid swept up 1,297 undocumented workers.
In Greeley, homes in Latino neighborhoods were seemingly abandoned as residents fled or hid in fear — some not leaving basements or closets for weeks. As many as half the desks in nearby schools sat empty because of rumors that the government would round up children next.
More than 200 children came home that day to find one or more parents gone.
Vicente-Vicente's pregnant wife and four children wouldn't know where he was for two weeks, when he finally was able to call them from a federal detention center in Texas. He was held there for three months and then returned to the detention center in Aurora, where he posted bond.
He has returned to Greeley and is seeking asylum.
Read more: Fear from Swift plant raid resonates in Greeley six years later - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_22374170/fear-from-swift-plant-raid-resonates-greeley-six#ixzz2I2O9hFkX
So, the illegal alien thug I still in the country illegally? He should have had his ass sent back to where he came from a long time ago. If he wants to bring his wife and kids, great and if he wants them to stay, that's fine also, unless his wife is an illegal, but he needs to go.
These illegal thugs were committing crimes- being in the country illegally, using false Social Security numbers (in other words, fraud) and possible other crimes.
If you live in the United States illegally, you need to cower in fear, you need to be afraid that sometime you will be deported.
From the same article:
"When businesses are built upon systematic violation of the law or others go to systematically violate the law in order to either bring in illegal migrants or to allow them to find jobs, that is a problem that we have to attack," he said.
Some of the Greeley workers had allegedly purchased or stolen names and Social Security numbers to get jobs with Swift. The company denied knowledge.
Some residents in the conservative farming and college town applauded the raid as a necessary measure to help stop illegal immigration.
And they have this idiot commenting:
"These people came here. They were working hard in miserable conditions. They weren't dealing drugs. They weren't criminals," said then-Mayor Tom Selders, who was critical of the way the raid was handled.
Selders lost his bid for a second term in 2007, he said, because his stance was not popular in Greeley, where nearly half of residents responding to a survey that year said the raid had been a good thing.
Yo, idiot, they were criminals- they were here illegally and many of them committed social security fraud. No wonder you were thrown out of office- for being a liberal doofus.
Many of the arrested workers were deported within 48 hours of the raid. But more than half a dozen cases for workers, including Vicente-Vicente, who opted to fight deportation are still dragging through the courts.
Vicente-Vicente's family still suffers, he said.
Family of Christ minister Jenn Soule-Hill said she still sees trauma in the 10 raid-affected families her church continues to aid. They have not been able to recuperate because their lives have been hemmed in by fear or costly legal battles.
Cry me a river, you illegal alien thug.
More Spanish-speaking families packed up and left. Good.
Swift was not criminally penalized in connection with the raid — a fact that Buck still criticizes — but agreed to change its hiring practices. Not good, Swift should have known they hired illegals and they should have been punished with fines in the millions of dollars.
But some attitude shifts have taken place. Administrative changes have ICE agents focusing more on removing serious criminals from the country and placing a low priority on undocumented immigrants who aren't criminals. Umm, these criminals are criminals just by being in the United States illegally. Moron article writer.
For Vicente-Vicente, the Catholic church is a source of community in a town where he feels downright afraid.
"I am scared every day. I have to open the door and wonder who will be there," he says. "Will they take me from my family?"
Good. Be afraid. Very afraid because Obama will not be around much longer than 2016 and there is a good chance a Republican will get in as president (unless they nominate another member of the walking dead society) and maybe the president will not be so coddling to a bunch of criminals and they will kick your butt out of the United States and back to where you came from, you criminal thug.
And then, we will be saying this song:
At the Prairie Café...
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