Former Agriprocessors Supervisor: Plant Scrambled To Get Workers New IDs The Night Before Raid

Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza says Agriprocessors managers provided new permanent resident cards to workers.

Supervisor: Iowa plant workers given immigration cards

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A former kosher slaughterhouse supervisor has testified the plant scrambled to get workers new identification documents the night before a massive immigration raid.

Former Agriprocessors' supervisor Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza says managers provided new permanent resident cards to 20 employees and had them fill out new applications the night before the May 2008 raid at the Iowa plant in which nearly 400 workers were arrested. Guerrero-Espinoza says the cards were fraudulent and manufactured in Minneapolis a week before the raid.

His testimony came Thursday in the third week of former manager Sholom Rubashkin's federal trial on 91 financial fraud charges.

Prosecutors have been introducing alleged immigration violations into evidence over the protests of the defense team.

Comments

[Yochanan Lavie]

It's almost the anniversary of the Mountain Dew party. Apologies to the Police:

Don't think me unkind
Honesty is hard to find
The only cheques you've left unsigned
Heve left your creditors behind
And when their eloquence affects me
Their logic ties me up and schects me

chorus:
De Dew Dew Dew, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De Dew Dew Dew, de da da da
They're innocent because they're Jews
De Dew Dew Dew, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De Dew Dew Dew, de da da da
They're meaningless in the courtroom

Bloggers, rabbis and morei d'asura
Have words to thank for their meshugas
Words that scream to make things assur
And they are still cramming in the bossur
'Cos when their illogic affects you
Their logic ties you up and schects you

chorus 2x

[WoolSIlkCotton]

YL, excellent!
Friday night, erev Halloween, is indeed the first anniversary of the Mountain Dew Dance Party!

[effie]

The night before, huh? Think someone tipped them off about the raid?

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, WSC.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Love Me Dew (apologies: the Beatles)

Love, love me Dew.
You know I'm a super Jew,
I'll always say "nu",
So please, love me Dew.
Oy, love me Dew.

Love, love me Dew.
the trial is not through,
We'll drink vodka, too,
So please, love me Dew.
Oy, love me Dew.

Someone above,
Somebody nu.
Someone to move,
Someone who likes Jews.

Love, love me Dew.
You know cows say moo,
I'll speak in Hebrew,
So please, love me Dew.
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We'll party the night through,
The courtroom we rue,
So please, love me Dew.
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Nu, love me Dew.
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[state of disgust]

Effie:
You would have had to be deaf, dumb and blind not to expect a raid at almost any second. ICE made no secret that they were taking over the Cattle Congress for a 'training' exercise and there were only two major employers of undocumented workers in the area - Agri being the larger of the two. On top of that Agri had been in the news a few months prior after workers walked-out because they feared a raid was imminent. You couldn't have made it more clear had you stood in front of INS Headquarters with a map containing circles and arrows pointing at Postville.

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

YL -
Really cooking today.
Maybe we've finally got a holiday in Marcheshvan - Yom Dew.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, OCR.

[Hometown Postville]

YL: That one deserves a video to go along with it! Do ya think SMR and the Gang would oblige??