{"id":37316,"date":"2019-08-09T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37316"},"modified":"2019-08-09T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:55:18","slug":"republicans-with-no-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/republicans-with-no-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans with No Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Republican Reich demonstrated their heartlessness in a couple of ways.  First, their Brown Shirt thugs, aka ICE, raided several poultry plants in Mississippi and detained almost 700 law-abiding workers, but undocumented, workers.  Millionaire plant owners had imported most of them years before to replace black workers, because they were trying to unionize.  The raids terrorized the detainees, their families, and Latinos nationwide.  Second, Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, continued his hate campaign against Latinos, even while visiting El Paso, where he was pretending to support victims of a massacre he and other Republicans had inspired.<\/font><\/p>\n

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On Wednesday people across the United States were shocked by the news that ICE raids<\/a> at a handful of Mississippi chicken plants had resulted in the largest single-state immigration enforcement action in U.S. history, with nearly 700 people detained. As surprising as the news was, coming on the heels of a deadly mass shooting that targeted Latinos, perhaps just as surprising was the location of the raids in the deep, rural South. <\/p>\n

The prominence of Latinos in Mississippi\u2019s chicken plants and communities<\/a> today was not accidental. It was calculated, strategic and intimately related to deeply rooted structures of labor exploitation in the region. Beginning in the 1990s, Latin American immigrants were recruited to the state by the poultry industry, where they arrived to work in some of the lowest-paid and most dangerous jobs in the country. This week\u2019s raids target deeply rooted workers and families and leave behind a devastated community, while also terrorizing many others across the country<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The roots of the heavily Latino workforces in Southern poultry plants lie in the growing American appetite for chicken during the 1990s, and the stirrings of a labor movement by African American plant workers. As poultry production expanded, workers\u2019 pay and opportunities remained stagnant. As a result, labor organizing<\/a> among the plants\u2019 predominantly African American workforce began to gain traction. <\/p>\n

Facing the prospect of its first union contract negotiations and in search of more \u201cflexible\u201d (read: exploitable and expendable) workers, in 1994 a chicken plant in Morton, Miss., headed to Miami in search of immigrant labor… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Both Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell had segments on this.<\/font><\/p>\n

ICE Raid Speaks Louder Than Donald Trump Platitudes On El Paso Shooting<\/a> <\/p>\n