I did a double take when I saw this article. The May 12 Agriprocessors immigration raid, the largest single site raid in U.S. history, has certainly come under a lot of scrutiny in the past couple of weeks. Stories of abusive and dangerous working conditions at the plant continue to surface. And of course, there’s the symbolism of rounding the immigrants up and “processing” them at the National Cattle Congress grounds in Iowa.
But this really takes the cake. How can it be that 270 immigrants were raided, arrested, prosecuted in a makeshift federal court (on the Cattle grounds, naturally), and sentenced to five months in federal prison…all in a 12 day period?
