Burning Atlanta

This is good and bad news. I strongly believe in seeing these ALLEGED cheating, thieving, low-life scum employers being fined and imprisoned IF (choke) found guilty. BUT the illegals /lawyers are trying to exploit some loopholes so the illegals can gain legal status and stay. Nope, sorry, I don't agree. Their lawyers and other criminal support groups can take care of them for a short time until all the legal matters are covered, then they can be deported and brought back for trial if needed.

These lawyers are targeting ICE for now as a stalling tactic.

Hang the employers, deport the illegals

The nation's largest single immigration raid, resulting in nearly 400 arrests earlier this week, violated the constitutional rights of workers at a meatpacking plant, a federal lawsuit says.

The lawsuit accuses the government of arbitrary and indefinite detention. It seeks to prevent the government from moving the arrested workers out-of-state as their cases wend through the system.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said he couldn't comment on the lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of about 147 of the workers rounded up Monday at an Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant.

The lawsuit was filed against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division and several government officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

As victims of alleged crimes, the workers would be eligible for certain visas that would let them gain legal status, the suit said. Some of the arrested workers have spouses and children that are U.S. citizens and could be eligible for immigration relief because of their family ties, according to the suit.

The suit noted that a number of immigrant workers' children have been stranded with baby sitters and other caretakers as a result of the raid.