Delaware Police Say No To The Republican President
Deleware Public Radio is reporting that several Delaware police agencies will not be participating in illegal immigrant sweeps.
Delaware locals like Georgetown’s Chief of Police R. L. Hughes says he personally doesn’t want his officers involved with immigration enforcement.
“Immigration is a federal – something that a federal agency should be handling,” Hughes said. “That is not for local, municipal, county and in some state- state police.”
Delaware State Police and New Castle County police – as well as police in Wilmington Elsmere, Seaford – say they aren’t involved with immigration enforcement either.
Huzzah! Common sense at last! No doubt Charlie Copeland will write a letter…..
They do a roundup down in the Georgetown area, and it’ll kill the poultry industry.
That’d turn Sussex County blue for sure.
Also, a large population of Chester Co. ag/mushroom farm labor live in northern New Castle Co. I don’t see a lot of American born workers clamoring for those jobs either.
The “poultry industry” uses E-Verify.
With cases like this one, local police really open themselves up to lawsuits. In addition, ICE agents will likely be pretty busy with the states and localities that will participate, so there will likely be long delays waiting to make these identifications.
The “poultry industry” got raided in Sussex County a few years back and one of the chicken plants lost so many workers it had to temporarily eliminate a shift.
E-verify does not list Mountaire Farms (Millsboro & Selbyville) as E-verify participants.
“don’t see a lot of American born workers clamoring for those jobs either.”
Mushrooms, poultry – Who used to do those jobs before the influx of illegal labor?
Americans will never “clamor” for those jobs, but that sort of work was once the working-class jobs of last resort in hard times.
That was Allen’s (which is no longer in business). The raid was on Maryland’s eastern shore in 1996 in the towns of Cordova and Hurlock. INS arrested 124 of the 1200 workers and detained 107 of those overnight. E-Verify was established in 1997.
E-Verify is voluntary. Mountaire Farms, one of the “poultry industry” is not participating according to the E-Verify employer database.
The raid I am referring too was not 1996 it was more recent. Somewhere around either at the beginning of Obama’s first termor the end of Bush’s second.
Acting as if the poultry industry isn’t contributing to the “problem” of illegal immigration is really just silly. Chicken plants do the paperwork, pay to bring them here, help them with housing. And some of those people just don’t leave when they are supposed to. Not dumping on the Chicken plants, but really, they are bringing them here on temp. worker visas. This is a reality.
I am sure the same could be said about the Mushroom industry around Chadds Ford.
Yeah, it’s horrible and scary. They work our farms for us like