The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Just doing their job

What kind of person volunteers for this job?

What kind of person rejoices in this news?

Mississippi Immigration Raids Lead To Arrests Of Hundreds Of Workers

Federal immigration officials raided several food-processing plants in Mississippi on Wednesday and arrested approximately 680 people believed to be working in the U.S. without authorization.

The coordinated raids were conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations "at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi," according to an ICE statement. 

In addition to the arrests, agents seized company business records.

More than 600 ICE agents were involved in the raids, surrounding the perimeters of the targeted plants to prevent workers, mainly Latino immigrants, from escaping. 

The actions were centered on plants near Jackson owned by five companies, according to The Associated Press.

TV news is saying many of those taken for deportation were parents whose kids, at school, were left behind.

Giving OITNB further relevance.

Is it worth the trouble mentioning that nothing Trump or the Republicans are doing will prevent or even delay the impending sorpasso, the demographic shift in which non-Hispanic whites stop being a majority of the US population.

[Yes, I am repurposing a word that had a very different meaning during the later days of the Cold War.]

Not that it's exactly imminent.

Guesses vary, but the earliest as to when this will happen is sometime after 2040.

And, anyway, when Hispanic whites are counted in (and why on earth not?), whites right now make up just under 80% of the US population, while when those folks are ignored whites comprise only just above 60% of the US population.

So when will whites, all whites, cease to be a majority in the US?

The Census Bureau says whites will still be 70% of the total US population in 2060, so not soon, and maybe not this century, if at all.

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