Obama said, “We’ve got to crack down on employers who are taking advantage of undocumented workers,” he said. “When you read about a meatpacking plant hiring 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds – that is some of the most dangerous, difficult work there is. … They have kids in there wielding buzz saws and cleavers? It’s ridiculous. And the only reason they’re hiring these folks is because they want to avoid paying people decent wages and providing them decent benefits.”

He is right and let’s not be juvenile. You cannot tell me that financial “scrupulousness” among many businesses in our community step out of bounds with objective reality or labor laws.

While there most certainly are antisemites who point to Jews like pointer dogs on the hunt, everytime our community members have to be “corrected” by the law, it is not always antisemitism.

A lot of times we schmooze local and state goverment and get a pass others groups dont get, but we cant do that all the time.

So far, all that Agri has actually been legitimately accused of is hiring immigrant workers who presented fraudulent documentation to gain employment.

Keep in mind, as an employer you CANNOT refuse employment to a hispanic wojrker just because you “suspect” they may be illegal, especially if they present you with documentation that they have a right to work here. Employers have NO WAY of knowing if the documents are real, putting them in a damned if you do/damned if you don’t predicament.

As far as the allegations that agriprocessors purposely violated the law so they could underpay workers, all actual FACTS indicate that they were the HIGHEST paying employer in the area, DID provide benefits to employees, even funding a daycare center for the employees children!

If, and I do say “if,” these new allegations are true, then the underage workers surely had false documents as well. My nephew was already six foot tall when he was 14. Could you have told him from an 18 year old (with papers attesting that he WAS 18)? When I was sixteen I could already grow a beard. I could buy beer (the drinking age was 18 then) and i NEVER got ‘carded.”

Let us PLEASE remember to judge our fellow Jew favorably.

Well Obamanation, this wouldnt be a problem if you libs werent so gung ho on allowing illeagals into the country and taking care of them ON OUR DOLLAR.