Jun 12 2007
Portland Mayor believes illegal immigration is good policy
Fool.
Raid on plant uncovers hundreds of illegal workers
Federal agents on Tuesday raided the offices of a Portland food processing plant suspected of employing hundreds of illegal workers who used Social Security numbers that belonged to other people or were made up.
More than 165 workers were detained to be processed for possible deportation, officials said, and three people were indicted on immigration, illegal documents and identity theft charges.
Portland Mayor Tom Potter criticized the raids. The three arrests were understandable, he said, but "to go after local workers who are here to support their families while filling the demands of local businesses for their labor is bad policy."
Sure. It's bad policy to go after people who are committing ID fraud. All 165 of those people were working with false documents. That they singled out 3 for harsher crimes is no excuse for the actions of the others.