Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided an Omaha meatpacking plant on Tuesday morning, sowing fear into the community as advocates and family members attempt to figure out how many people were detained and where they were taken.
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Nebraska is definitely not within 100 miles of a land or sea border, the claimed jurisdiction of ICE. It’s probably about as far as you can get, actually.
Throw it on the pile.
IIRC the argument used for this is that since you have to go through customs at an airport for international flights, the airport counts as a “border”.
Funny how all these illegal immigrants that are a drain on your society, are all are all kidnapped from work.
U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, who represents Omaha, said the warrant was in relation to stolen identities. Bacon said Glenn Valley is “a victim in this as well” and said the company used E-Verify, an identity verification tool.
Fuck you. That company was under no illusion what their workforce looked like. Fucking stolen identity. Oh no they’re paying social security taxes that they can never claim! What will we do.
Arresting the workers, but not touching the guy who hired them and created the illegal jobs.
Ugh, fuck my city and state.
