Saturday, May 24, 2008
270 Immigrants Imprisoned
According to the New York Times, 270 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week for using false documents to get employment at an Iowa meat-packing plant. This story was intriguing for several reasons:
1) The speed with which they were passed through the federal system. There is a "fast-track" process for simple deportations, but I don't think that is what was going on here.
2) That this is pretty rare.
3) That they were mostly from Guatamala (except the one pictured here), messing with our perception that illegals come only from Mexico.
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Unfortunately, the set of all people that thinks that illegals all come from Mexico is coextensive with the set of people that cannot distinguish the relative positions of Mexico and Guatemala on a map, referring to the entire subcontinent as "some're down thar."
I can see it now... some poor man in a maple leaf t-shirt, with a hockey stick in one hand and a "will trap fur for food" sign in the other. :)
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