Tim Belay/VOA News presents illegal immigration-supporting side of Postville story

Tim Belay of the federally-funded Voice of America - offers "Postville Marks Immigration Raid Anniversary with Reflection, Optimism" (link). A little over a year ago, the Agriprocessors kosher meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa was the site of a major immigration raid, and just recently the MSM marked the anniversary in their own special way.

Since the VOA is basically part of the U.S. government, you might expect them to support our laws. Instead, Belay's article is little more than a Basic English version of one of those MSM reports. Belay highlights how that town is "recovering" from "its difficulties" and how "the events of a year ago were a disaster for the town". He doesn't acknowledge that the town's recent resurgence was based on illegal labor, something that no doubt almost all of the town's residents knew about but decided to look the other way. He doesn't acknowledge the pernicious impact of such corruption. He doesn't, for instance, ask one of the town's leaders why we should care about their plight when they had to know that their town was built on illegal activity. And, among other things, he doesn't mention that the plant was charged with over 9000 child labor law violations.

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Mon, 05/18/2009 - 12:31 · · Importance: 4