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Home Front: Culture Wars
Immigration Raid Aftermath – "AP Style"
2007-03-08
Queue up the vintage Ellis Island footage with quaint music Â…NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- Immigrants brought prosperity to New Bedford. They manned its lucrative whaling fleet, ran its textile mills and provided the muscle for the fishing boats that leave here daily for the Atlantic. But this New England city, which occasionally gives a knowing wink-and-nod at its illegal immigrant population, found itself in turmoil Wednesday, one day after federal agents raided a leather factory and detained more than 300 undocumented workers.
Play audio clip from that movie voice-over guy…“But a new wind was blowing...”

Posted by:DepotGuy

#7  Grab some of these guys that hire the illegals, slap 'em in prison for five to ten making gravel from rocks, and you might end this mess. Nothing else short of armed force seems to work.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-03-08 23:02  

#6  Insolia oversaw sweatshop conditions so he could meet the demands of $91 million in U.S. military contracts

Done contracting. The inch of boiler plate includes provisions that if you break the law executing the contract it makes the contract null and void. If you low balled, that means you, with intent, stole the contract from someone who was willing to comply with the law.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-03-08 15:40  

#5  Baby Ducks and bunnies most effected.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-03-08 15:27  

#4  Gear up your production unit, Depot Guy. We need a lot more movies like this.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2007-03-08 14:53  

#3  Nice script and direction, Depot Guy! But I think those "well meaning activists" flanking the "exasperated local official" should be demonstrating the Sympathetic Head Tilt for added emotional appeal.
Posted by: Dar   2007-03-08 12:43  

#2  Ya know, their unemployment might not be so bad if criminals didn't undercut the market.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-03-08 11:39  

#1  New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang said he's against allowing illegal immigrants to work in his aging mill city, one plagued by chronic unemployment.
"What bothers me is the selectivity and unilateralness of taking people who went to work yesterday and moving them out of the area without any real understanding of how it affects their families," he said.

Typical Mass politician. Wants it both ways.
Here's an solution. Make sure mom and pops and the kiddies are all together on the same plane back to Guatemala.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-03-08 11:21  

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