WARNING: RANT

I don't bitch very often, particularly when it comes to things that could be political in nature, but I couldn't overlook this troubling sign that stupidity is rampant in some parts of this country.

Overhill Farms is a company in southeast Los Angeles that manufactures frozen meals for companies like American Airlines, Panda Express, Jenni Craig, etc. The IRS notified Overhill last month that 260 of the employees at their plant had suspect or fraudulent social security numbers.

Overhill fired all of them.

It's being called a "Desktop Raid", as opposed to what would have happened last year where INS agents and vans would have physically raided the plant and deported those in the country illegally, then fined the company, and the company's management would potentially face prison terms. No vans, no agents, no deportations, just loss of jobs to the illegals.

The L.A. Times ran this bleeding heart, front page article about the hardship this places on the fired workers and their families, especially in a time when it's so hard to find a job. Headline: "Factory workers left devastated". AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT SEES A FUCKING PROBLEM WITH THIS??!?!???

That's 260 jobs at a single company that could go to LEGAL RESIDENTS that are suffering EXACTLY the same situation BUT DIDN'T COME INTO THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY!!!

All of the illegals at this food plant came in under Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

This reveals the next step that absolutely MUST be taken to combat illegal immigration. Hold the damned UNIONS legally responsible for forcing illegal aliens on employers AT LEAST AS MUCH as the employers are held responsible for employing those illegally in the country. Fine the shit out of the unions with illegal members the same way that employers are fined. Imprison the leaders of the guilty union the same way the company leaders are imprisoned. Raid the books and check the documentation of the unions' members the same way that the books and employee documentation is checked at the employers.

C'mon. This isn't rocket science.

To show how little remorse the union has for its actions and the level of disregard it has for the law or real Americans (I also include LEGAL immigrants in this group. “Of the Soil, of the Blood." Remember?), the union staged a running protest outside the offices and plants of Overhill Farms for dismissing the workers with fake social security numbers. An accompanying photo showed a little boy of about 5 years age with a professional printed union sign that says in big, bold letters "OVERHILL FARMS PATRON INJUSTO Y RACISTA".

Give me a fucking break. First, they can't even PROTEST in English?? Second, it's racist for a company to dismiss employees that lied on their applications since when? It's racist for a company facing massive fines and imprisonment to act in a way that brings itself back into compliance with the law how?

"But the Overhill case illustrates how desktop raids can ravage immigrant families even without arrests and deportations" said the L.A. Times.

Let's make a little fucking distinction here: Immigrant families AREN'T being ravaged. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT families are. Immigrant families (legal) are being ravaged by unemployment increased by unions forcing illegal immigrants into what jobs ARE available.

"We killed ourselves on the assembly lines for years. Now we're worth nothing. We're out on the streets. This is unjust, no one should be treated that way," said Bohemia Agustiano, 38, a mother of four from Huntington Park, Ca.

No, what is unjust is that your wet back ass (anti-illegal slur, not racist) has sat on an assembly line taking a job away from a legal immigrant/resident for years and that you feel you're entitled Ms. Agustiano, while the taxpayers of California supplied your four children with an education and healthcare.

"My Social Security number was good all these years, why is it suddenly no good now?" asked Eva Macias, a 19-year veteran of Overhill Farms.

Because it's not your fucking Social Security number, Ms. Macias.

The average wage these workers were earning was $10 per hour. This is NOT a case of the wages being so low that no American/legal resident would take the job.

Anyway, I know this is going on everywhere, but nowhere more so than places like California. One of the huge reasons the state is in the shitter, and residents are leaving California like rats from a sinking ship. The L.A. Times article went on and on, but that's enough to make my blood reach the boiling point.

That’s the end of my rant. I don’t want to use this site as a place to bitch very often, but this story blew my mind.