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JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: JUSTICE DEPORTED. When immigration enforcement agents raided six meatpacking plants on Tuesday, officials said it was because the workers were using stolen identities. In fact, as David Bacon reports, immigration agents wanted to send a message to unionized workplaces. They also wanted to send a message to Democrats:
After six years in office, ICE's choice of this moment to begin their campaign is more than suspect. It is designed to force the new Democratic congressional majority to make a choice. The administration is confident that Democrats will endorse workplace raids in order to appear "tough on illegal immigration" in preparation for the 2008 presidential elections. In doing so, they will have to attack two of the major groups who produced the votes that changed Congress in November -- labor and Latinos.Read the whole thing here.--The Editors
