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Federal Immigration cops have raided a Kosher meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa, arresting hundreds of illegal immigrant workers. I don't mean illegal Jewish immigrants. Those arrested are cats here illegally from Mexico and Guatemala and such.

Iowa Governor Chet Culver thinks they ought to be prosecuted, but... Perhaps the "but" has something to do with campaign contributions made by the Rubashkin family, who own the Postville plant to politicians of every stripe.

The old feeder notes that the Rubashkins have also started a similar Kosher kill operation in Gordon, Nebraska. Ostensibly, the idea was to employ Red Indians from the Pine Ridge Reservation. I'm guessing the Native Americans didn't work out as cheap labor** and that the plant in Gordon is operated by unpapered cats from South of the border. Just a guess.
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** If Red Indians had been amenable to slavery, why would the New World have had to import slaves from Africa?

Des Moines, Iowa to be a 'sanctuary city'...

Eco-Friendly Free Ride ~ Omaha to Des Moines

Thats what the Drudge Report headline reads today: Des Moines, Iowa to be a 'sanctuary city'. Here is the Des Moines Register article about this stupid but predictable development.

I'm sure most of you will think "Here is another anti-American, liberal, Democrat-ridden town that believes in open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens, trying to jump on the post 9/11 self-destruction bandwagon." I believe this tragedy for Iowans could be good news for Nebraskans.

We should use the Nebraska Soybean Program's biodiesel powered bus to provide free one-way trips to Des Moines, Iowa for anyone claiming to be an illegal immigrant and hasn't any papers to prove it. The free sanctuary city rides could be advertised locally, and the cost offset by taking legal, paying passengers on the return trip.

It would also be good exposure for our soybean producers; it has been ages since the beanerbus was in the news. I had to look all over to find a picture of it.
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Update: Michelle Malkin reports that the San Francisco City Board of Supervisors has decided:

In a 10-1 vote, the city’s board of supervisors — the equivalent of a city council — approved giving identification cards to all residents, including illegal immigrants. The move makes San Francisco the largest U.S. city to back such a plan.

Residents will be able to obtain the resident cards by presenting photo identification and proof they live in the city, such as a utility bill. It was unclear if the new cards, which will be accepted at libraries and health clinics, will carry photos.

San Francisco, always in the vanguard of dysfunctional oddness, has been a sanctuary city since before it was cool. What a great idea: legit ID cards for all, no matter who or what you are. I'll bet you can wear a burqa or other religious disguise for the picture. Tres PeeCee! Can Des Moines be far behind?

Kelsey Peterson & Fernando: revolting development

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Kelsey Peterson

High-profile Omaha criminal defense attorney, James Martin Davis, will be representing Kelsey Peterson. She is the Lexington, Nebraska teacher that ran away to Mexico with her underage illegal immigrant student. When she gets back here for trial, Mr. Davis will give her a vigorous defense. Davis has defended all manner of distasteful wretches. He's good at it. I think he enjoys his work and sleeps soundly at night. I wonder who will be footing the bill?

Expect James Davis to go after the victim. He used this tactic effectively to defend lawsuits filed against Boys Town alleging priest sex abuse. When Mr. Davis finishes his closing argument, at least one juror will blame little Fernando for debauching and waylaying poor, innocent Kelsey.

Now for the revolting development part. From KDUH/KOTA:

The boy is an illegal immigrant, but a new government visa program enacted just a week before his abduction could make him eligible to return to this country.

Under the program, illegal immigrants that are crime victims could live in the US for up to four years and eventually apply for permanent resident status.

It would also extend temporary residency to his parents and his unmarried siblings under 18.

Little Fernando might be returning to the land of opportunity real soon. Thanks to some back door to America program I've never heard of before. Amnesty for illegal aliens has been creeping up on us while we slept. Or perhaps it was while we were distracted by our lawmakers' blatant efforts to ram blanket Amnesty down our throats.
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Revolting Update: Nebraska's Senator Chuck 'Amnesty Now' Hagel wants you to feel sorry for poor little Fernando. Wake up, Chuck! The blame for Mexican kids dragged across the US border illegally properly falls upon the kids' criminal parents, not on the decent Americans who want our laws enforced. If these kids are jammed up, it is a collateral consequence of their parents' crimes, same as the kids who must grow up with a parent in prison. Is there no end to Hagel's long guilt trip?
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More: Miss Peterson has been fired from her teaching job by the Lexington School Board. Hat tip to Psycho for Love.
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Now it would appear that Fernando was only 12 years old when he began to victimize poor Kelsey. Or was it the other way around? I guess latino men macho-up young.
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Liberal Blog Reaction
Even the PC crowd is getting fed up. From the Huffington Post's Larry Womack:

When sixth grade teacher Kelsey Peterson fled to Mexico with her 13 year old "lover" late last month, my heart told me it was time to speak out. But fear told me not to; in today's PC world, there's no sin so great as speaking the truth. Then, last night, I opened the paper to find that Norma Giannini, a 79 year old Roman Catholic nun had pleaded no contest to repeatedly sexually abusing two middle school boys. [I]t's time that somebody spoke up for our children, and pulled them out of the clutches of these sick, perverted heterosexual women.

What a goofus! Larry thinks the problem is that child molesters are heterosexual. There aren't any homosexual child molesters in our schools? There aren't any homos in Iran, either. Liberal logic is objectively comprehensible only to medievalists.

May Day: Forget about the Haymarket

May Pole Dance - Medieval-style Merriment

Scantily clad ladies frolic around a Maypole, drinking and feasting to follow. I would like to see this pagan tradition brought back. What was wrong with the May Fair that couldn't be fixed by adding a little Jesus? Instead, May Day has come to be a day to 'celebrate' struggle. I hate struggling. It makes me tired just to watch it done.

Early May Day Struggle March

Marxist thought effectively ruined May Day in the US following the Haymarket riot in Chicago. Down went the Maypoles. No Bacchanalian frivolity is allowed under the dour Marxists strugglers. Reminds me of the Puritans chopping down American colonist Thomas Morton's pagan Maypole. No fun. Only struggle.

May Day for today's Communist Strugglers

May Day hasn't gotten any better since the Haymarket. Now it is all about struggle. This wailing cat probably manned the Peace Table at some College Student Union in the 60's. No fun here.

May Day for today's Struggling Illegal Mexicans

This kind of May Day doings not only isn't any fun, but it makes my blood boil. Now that the Mexican illegals here in the States and their compadres in Mexico have been bought and paid for by the communists, the workers all wear sombreros. And all they want to do today is struggle. I'm staying home.