PBS's Frontline recently aired a piece about the aftermath of the DHS raids at a Postville, IA kosher meatpacking plant called Agriprocessors. The video does not get into the non-immigration labor violations found at the plant, but it documents the story of the Guatemalan undocumented workers who worked there. Please take the 15 minutes to watch the video.
Thank you Gregg for sending it to me!
The story can be found found at: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2009/07/guatemala_a_tal.html
Or you can watch it below...
Posted by Kevin at August 2, 2009 04:13 PMLast July I marched in a rally in Postville in support of the workers. The mayor gave an eloquent speech about how these folks - good, hardworking neighbors - were rounded up and treated worse than animals. Most of the workers are from the area around Antigua and around Chimaltenango. I know many families from both areas, as the result of having made many trips as a volunteer to an orphanage in the western highlands. I couldn't help wondering how many of the imprisoned workers I might have known as orphaned kids.
I also can't help wondering how many of OUR kids are related to them.
Posted by: Gregg at August 2, 2009 05:05 PM