Navarette says:
At the Agriprocessors plant, former employees accuse supervisors of engaging in everything from sexual harassment to violations of child labor laws.
What they don’t say is the that supervisors being accused are Spanish speaking immigrants themselves and that nobody will tell Agriprocessors who the alleged underaged workers are. Additionally, nobody has accused the plant management of any specific legal violations. So what we have is a company that is being tried in the media for unspecified crimes.
What is particularly galling is that if 250 workers had illegal IDs as charged, then Agriprocessors hired them in good faith. They can’t be blamed. Of the other 150, we don’t know what the story is. They may have committed id theft but the government may not be able to prove it. Yet Navarette clearly wants to blame the employer.
Navarette quotes Obama as complaining that “…nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing,…”
What does he propose? That nursing mothers are to be immune from prosecution? That parents of school children all have a “get out of jail free” card?
