PBS Frontline/World To Show Impact Of Agriprocessors Immigration Raid Tomorrow Night
PBS Frontline/World to show impact of Iowa immigration raid, Tuesday May 11
PBS Frontline/World will broadcast a 15-minute version of the documentary "In the Shadow of the Raid", by directors Greg Brosnan and Jennifer Szymaszek, nationwide on its Tuesday night, May 11 show. See local listings for times.
The documentary details the devastating cross-border economic impact of the United States' largest ever immigration raid, in Postville, Iowa on May 12, 2008. The raid exactly two years ago on the nation's largest Kosher meatpacking plant wrought economic disaster on a Guatemalan village and wrecked the economy of a former Midwestern boom town.
"In the Shadow of the Raid" is the second segment of PBS Frontline/World this Tuesday, following a piece on carbon trading. Please check local listings for times.
The raid exactly two years ago on the nation's largest Kosher meatpacking plant wrought economic disaster on a Guatemalan village and wrecked the economy of a former Midwestern boom town.
The raid exactly two years ago on the nation's largest Kosher meatpacking plant wrought economic disaster on a Guatemalan village and wrecked the economy of a former Midwestern boom town.
Wow, economic disaster to a foreign village and wrecking the economy of an American town. I guess one calls this acceptable collateral damage. At least they will have one Jew behind bars to show for it and countless dollars of legal fees and airline tickets to boot. Well worth it!
It reminds me of the time that I owed one company 3 cents. I found it amusing how many months they would be sending me statements where the postage on the statement exceeded the amount owed. This was pre-online payment and I did not want to put postage on the payment where the postage exceeded amount owed. Classic!
Posted by: harold | May 11, 2010 at 07:30 AM
This says a lot about your character, Harold. Most people wouldn't have wasted the negative energy.
Posted by: Kid Doc | May 11, 2010 at 02:24 PM
I'll start by saying the Rubashkins are disgusting.
Now that that's out of the way, I saw the Frontline documentary and on a side-by-side comparison of greater evils, by far more damage was done by the raid in the name of "justice."
Postville is devastated economically now and the Guatemalans will be relegated to a lifetime of eternal debt and poverty.
No simplistic answers here, please. I think this is a classic case of interpreting the letter of the law, versus the spirit of the law.
Don't give me any lectures about child labor - yes, it's awful, but having been to Guatemala myself, it's not the 12-year-olds who are working, it's more like the eight-year-olds.
Remember, all of us whose grandparents came here, it was not through skill but the luck of virtually unlimited immigration laws in the early 1900's. If the laws were as stringent then as now
my family would not be alive today.
Posted by: Kiryas Mishigos | May 11, 2010 at 11:03 PM
I believe the updated version of the documentary shown last night on PBS is available for viewing on the PBS web site. The last two minutes discuss the re-opening of the meat line and the child labor trial. Go to this page and click on "Watch video":
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2009/07/guatemala_a_tal.html
Posted by: FirstGenerationBavarianAmerican | May 12, 2010 at 05:37 PM