Operation Scheduled Departure, or, the Charlotte Observer is gross

[sapote]

I know that no one reads this livejournal for my cutting-edge newsblogging, so I'm going to give the link and then cut like a cutting thing:
There are some reasonable, well-ordered articles on Operation Scheduled Departure, which seems to be a PR response to the fact that people caught in factory raids sometimes get deported while their kids are at school. The Charlotte Observer, bless its xenophobic, brown-people-are-ruining-our-suburbia-with-their-grocery-stores-and-block-parties little heart, does not feature one of them. This article is - does it read as threatening to you guys? Because to me, it looks like "You have twenty-two days to turn yourselves in or we will kick down your door and haul you off in front of your screaming children." Charlotte is also one of the pilot cities for 287-G, a program which basically removes law enforcement from the obligation to get convictions for people they dislike before they deport them.

I had almost settled on public health but this morning I'm back to thinking law school.

Argh.

Comments

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

I'm still appalled at the "fined 20 dollars if spending more then 2 minutes in the toilet" thing re that factory. Holy shit. =/

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I know. I'm very "yes, the workers are the people we need to be oppressing harder here. Clearly no one else involved in this situation needs better regulation or management."

I just read about a raid that turned up thirteen-year-olds doing factory work. In the US, for fuck's sake. What a mess. (Of course, once we deport that particular batch of Guatemalan teenagers, problem solved, right?)