This week, Federal agents raided multiple Swift meatpacking plants across the country. One of them happened to be near my hometown. 230 individuals were detained in the raid, almost two percent of the town's total population.
Imagine what happens to a community when 2% of your population is put in jail in one night. Each of those 230 individuals were folks living financially week-to-week if not day-to-day.
Think about what happens to those families when that income is wiped out.
Think about what happens to the economy in that town when that income is wiped out.
Immigration reform is needed but it is a tricky issue and not one that can be solved by blathering button pushers on Fox News. To get an excellent sense of how complicated this thing is, click here to read the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's story on this raid.
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