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Immigrants abused at Kosher Meatpacker
With pro-immigrant activists rallying in support of arrested workers, a Kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, has had poor labor conditions unmasked Undocumented workers were arrested in a massive raid that led to arrests and criminal prosecutions of the workers. But slave-like conditions in the plant were revealed.
Since changes in the immigration laws in 1986 undocumented workers have been increasingly reluctant to inform authorities about workplace abuses. The current structure of denying many immigrant workers a safe way to file complaints about employers insures a regime of hyperexploitation of vulnerable immigrants.
Pro-immigrant demonstrators in Postville had it right, if you want to end this kind of disgusting treatment of immigrants, allow them to come forward and report employers criminal activities. Keeping millions of people in the shadows helps no one.
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