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June 13th, 2009 at 2:39 pm by Brian
The LATino Times publishes a most confusing story today. Amid, double digit unemployment for US citizens, the ostensibly US-based news outlet is concerned about the least among us – the ones who stole your Social Security number and have been taking out credit cards in your name for two decades:
No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month and now find themselves in a precarious employment market, without severance pay or medical insurance. It wasn’t a hot tip or an undercover informant that helped seal their fates, but a computer check of Social Security numbers.
Welcome to America, now you’re as equally worthless as the rest of us. Ain’t equality a bitch?
Alternate title, “U.S. Economy In Worse Shape Since Depression; Illegal Aliens Hardest Hit”
Because when you have an ICE raid, people are terrified of our abusive, nazi, xenophobic policies but when you do it all nice and clean it’s just as bad!
“My Social Security number was good all these years, why is it suddenly no good now?” asked Eva Macias, a 19-year veteran of Overhill Farms. “We left our youth in that plant.”
Suddenly no good? It was always no good. It was suddenly discovered.
You left your youth in that plant??? You can’t just leave that kind of thing lying around. Keep it in a locker. Leave it in your car before you go in.
It probably would have been a lot better off in a sweat shop in Oaxaca.
One after another, the ex-workers lamented losing a steady job, even if it paid only $10 an hour, the average salary. All spoke of bleak prospects for finding alternative work in a shrinking economy.
Just wow.
June 13th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
It’s like demanding that medicaid pays for your visit to the doctor for a Viagra perscription after you suddenly find out you can’t maintain an erection while screwing your niece.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
You are all just a bunch of racists.
Poor little Mexicans… just trying to make ends meet. Throwing out an anchor baby or two. That’s hard work! And just repopulating Aztlan in preparation for the Reconquista…. it was theirs to begin with!.. and you won’t even let them have a job while they’re doing it…
Heartless bastard you are Brian.
June 13th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Maybe they’ll drag their lawbreaking asses back home over the border, where there might actually be some work. President Junior always told me what good workers they are, shouldn’t be too hard for them.
June 14th, 2009 at 2:02 am
These are solid Barack voters. They’ll get a bailout.