Agriprocessors, Inc. is an Iowa meat processing operation that supplied, just before the raid, about 60% of the kosher beef and about 40% of the kosher poultry in the USA. Their kosher license was suspended after four years of complaints by PETA, but continued to so brand their products in spite of that.
A comment by an angry rabbi in the Jerusalem Post: http://www.chabad-mafia.com/images/chabad-comments1.jpg
Hundreds were arrested in Iowa immigration raid (May 12, 2008). Postville, Iowa - A raid by federal immigration officials at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant may have resulted in as many as 700 arrests, immigration officials said Monday. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered the Agriprocessors Inc. complex in northeast Iowa Monday morning to execute a criminal search warrant for evidence relating to aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of Social Security numbers and other crimes.
Sexual favors were allegedly expected from some Postville workers. Reports that there was an expectation of sexual favors at Agriprocessors Inc. are beginning to emerge from workers at the Postville meat processing plant, and advocates for immigrants in Postville today are trying to collect and validate the stories. Sister Mary McCauley said workers have said that "there was sexual abuse, and that there's propositioning." Many of the workers were children.
Federal agents raided Agriprocessors Inc., a kosher meat-processing plant, on Monday in the largest single-site immigration bust in U.S. history. Arrest warrants were issued for 697 people who work at the plant. Federal agents detained 389 in Waterloo, charged 306 with various fraud-related charges, and released 62. Twenty-one remain in custody pending immigration hearings. Since the raid, stories of how employees were mistreated has emerged, including verbal abuse by supervisors. Last November, the federal search warrant released after the raid said, Immigrant and Customs Enforcement agents interviewed a former Agriprocessors supervisor who said some employees were running a methamphetamine lab in the plant and were bringing weapons to work. Another source alleged worker abuse, officials said in the warrant. In one case, a supervisor covered the eyes of an employee with duct tape and struck him with a meat hook.
Sources:
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/08/agriprocessors.html
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-12-iowa-immigration_N.htm
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/08/agriprocessors.html
This one includes an arrest for $35 million bank fraud, though the rest of the story is fairly white washed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriprocessors
One can only guess what else was in the meat.
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Pizzalawyer ago
The meat packing industry employs Illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America because these are the only folks willing to do such awful work. Was this issue addressed in the sources you reviewed. Such victims would never, ever come forward and the perps know that.
carmencita ago
Thank you for mentioning how maligned those workers are and why would anyone do such work because it is always for extremely low pay and horrible conditions. These people are hard up and are being used by companies and our govt. Our govt. looks the other way aw well because they are payed under the table by the companies. Yes, they are abused and used in many horrible ways. We would not want to do this work. Many look down on these people but they should get better pay and humane treatment. Those plants are dirty and filthy as well.
Laskar ago
sexual abuse of minors--easy to cover up when it is illegal aliens...
notice how quickly this post got buried in favor of posts that are four months old.
it is increasingly obvious that anything can be posted here--even the same story a dozen times--but they can't seem to stand the light of truth shone on a certain group of (((people))).
carmencita ago
I know one of those people. He worked in a meat packing plant and was born here, but was afraid because his parents were not documented. They also worked in that plant for 25 years. The father died in a horrible accident there, he does not go into detail, for it is painful. He now has a decent job but worked there for about 5 years while going to school. He now makes enough to support his Mother. He is one of the nicest people and would give you the shirt off his back. His Mother too. They came here because the town they lived in was nearly cleared out do to people moving to the north for promise of work. Lying companies that made wonderful offers that were never met. I am so sick of these immigrants being maligned when it is the fault of the Corporations and our Govt. and THEIR Govt. for not taking care of the people. Sorry, I will get off my soap box now.
Laskar ago
Think of the little children who were forced to do God knows what.
carmencita ago
They will suffer for what they are doing to his children. That is what Jesus said. If they harm even a hair on their heads they will suffer. I hope they are suffering beyond what we can imagine. They do what they do, and we think they enjoy it, but I wonder. Inside, do some wish they could stop, but they are caught in a web of no return. I hope the suffer day and night. May they all burn in hell.
Laskar ago
They will.
This life is short compared with eternity.
Look at the all the people who have had near death experiences and testified of seeing hell.
SoldierofLight ago
I've long suspected that the real reason the elites want to live so long, and will drink children's blood and eat their organs, is because they are so terrified of what will happen to them after they leave this existence.
Laskar ago
Could be. It could also be that they think that this is "all there is" and they have no idea what eternal torment awaits them. People with NDE's have seen it and tried to warn people but the elites are certainly not looking at that.