TODAY IN TAP ONLINE. David Bacon reports on immigration raids in a pork-processing plant in North Carolina where workers had been organizing. It's not an isolated incident, he notes. And much of the federal immigration legislation currently being considered would be just as bad for unions as it is for undocumented workers. Read the whole thing here. Plus:
- Laura Frost reviews Don DeLillo's new 9/11 novel, which manages to avoid the overblown heroic sentimentalism she refers to as "United 93 syndrome."
- Ari Paul notes that America's juvenile sentencing laws put us in the company of nations like Libya and Burma.
- And Robert Reich says it's time to close the tax loophole that private-equity firms have long used to rake in billions.
--The Editors
