Immigration raid cripples Ga. town

[EveningStar]

This is an editorial disguised as a news story. :flame:

STILLMORE, Ga. - Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago.

This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become little more than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants...
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_re_us/immigration_aftermath_1)

[Kathy30]

You mean they had to hire AN AMERICAN! Horrors. How dare they be forced to pay more than Wal-Mart.

[EveningStar]

From a thread at Free Republic: (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702226/posts?page=50#50)

My friend and I went into a mickey D's in Vidalia when it was full of the friendly folks from the nation south of here. No one there was speaking English, but I speak Spanish and could understand what they were saying. (It wasn't nice either) He opened his wallet and held it over his head and yelled "I...N...S". Within a split second the place was emptied, and they were scattering all over town getting away, and there was food all over the place uneaten. I never laughed so hard in my life, but the manager at mickey d's was really pissed. My buddy exchanged some unpleasant conversation with the manager so we left and went to a decent restaurant instead.

[DoctorDoom]

My heart really bleeds for the town. Maybe they need to look up "illegal" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illegal) in the M-W.

[Timberwolf]

ES...that is WAY too funny!!! Splittin' a gut up here!! ROTF!!

[Beowulf]

*grabs violin and starts playing, "My Heart Bleeds For You."*

[uncommon1]

I suggest we all write letters to Crider Poultry and let them know what we think about them for breaking the law and helping to pad their own bottom line by hiring criminal aliens. Management must have read the writing on the wall once the enforcement people showed up. I wish they'd do the same thing to the Tysons, especially and because they are very good friends of BJ Clinton.