La redada de la "migra" (o ICE por sus siglas oficiales) en el pueblo de Postville en el noroeste de Iowa, aunque enorme en cuanto a la gente de indocumentados detenidos, no tiene en principio muchas cosas nuevas. Es básicamente otra acción más de la Administración Bush y en particular de su Departamento de Seguridad Interna para mostrar que algo se está haciendo en el problema de inmigración. Algo así como para callarle la boca a los sectores anti inmigrantes que reclaman palo y garrote contra los indocumentados.Lo que sí llama la atención en esta redada a la fábrica "Agriprocessors", por cierto la más grande del mundo en el procesamiento de carne kosher (carne que se corta y se prepara según ciertas regulaciones de los judíos religiosos) y en donde trabajaban más de mil obreros la gran mayoría indocumentados, son los recursos que el ICE destinó preparando su acción.
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Yassim Moussa, left, a Darfurian refugee who represents refugees in Israel stands outside the door of a shelter in Tel Aviv, in this photo taken Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. This week the Israeli government plans to begin deporting thousands of illegal African migrants. Founded on the heels of the Nazi genocide, Israel finds itself torn between a sense of duty to take in people fleeing persecution and fears of an onslaught of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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African refugees boys walk outside their temporary shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel on 22 February 2008. Israeli police said on February 26 that they have arrested around 200 illegal African immigrants during a sweep of a working class district around the Mediterranean city's old central bus station. In recent months, dozens of migrants, most of them Africans, have been arrested and some shot dead in Egypt as they tried to make their way across the border. The government last year decided to grant residency to around 500 refugees from Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur after months of public debate, but not to other Africans who had entered illegally from Egypt. AFP PHOTO/YEHUDA RAIZNER (Photo credit should read YEHUDA RAIZNER/AFP/Getty Images)
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African refugees, most of them from Eritrea and Sudan, play basketball near their temporary shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel on 22 February 2008. Israeli police said on February 26 that they have arrested around 200 illegal African immigrants during a sweep of a working class district around the Mediterranean city's old central bus station. In recent months, dozens of migrants, most of them Africans, have been arrested and some shot dead in Egypt as they tried to make their way across the border. The government last year decided to grant residency to around 500 refugees from Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur after months of public debate, but not to other Africans who had entered illegally from Egypt. AFP PHOTO/YEHUDA RAIZNER (Photo credit should read YEHUDA RAIZNER/AFP/Getty Images)
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An African refugee walks outside his temporary shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel on 20 February 2008. Israeli police said on February 26 that they have arrested around 200 illegal African immigrants during a sweep of a working class district around the Mediterranean city's old central bus station. In recent months, dozens of migrants, most of them Africans, have been arrested and some shot dead in Egypt as they tried to make their way across the border. The government last year decided to grant residency to around 500 refugees from Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur after months of public debate, but not to other Africans who had entered illegally from Egypt. AFP PHOTO/YEHUDA RAIZNER (Photo credit should read YEHUDA RAIZNER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Eritrean refugees sit in a shelter in Tel Aviv, in this photo taken Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. This week the Israeli government plans to begin deporting thousands of illegal African immigrants. Founded on the heels of the Nazi genocide, Israel finds itself torn between a sense of duty to take in people fleeing persecution and fears of an onslaught of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An African child stands in the hallway of a shelter in Tel Aviv, in this photo taken Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. This week the Israeli government plans to begin deporting thousands of illegal African migrants. Founded on the heels of the Nazi genocide, Israel finds itself torn between a sense of duty to take in people fleeing persecution and fears of an onslaught of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Tasfa Mara, an Eritrean refugee who was injured by barbed wire while crossing illegally from Egypt, sits in a shelter in Tel Aviv, in this photo taken Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. This week the Israeli government plans to begin deporting thousands of illegal African migrants. Founded on the heels of the Nazi genocide, Israel finds itself torn between a sense of duty to take in people fleeing persecution and fears of an onslaught of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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African refugees sit in the hallway of a shelter in Tel Aviv, in this photo taken Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. This week the Israeli government plans to begin deporting thousands of illegal African migrants. Founded on the heels of the Nazi genocide, Israel finds itself torn between a sense of duty to take in people fleeing persecution and fears of an onslaught of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An African refugee surveys a vacant shelter, after an early morning police raid in Tel Aviv, in this photo taken, Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. This week the Israeli government plans to begin deporting thousands of illegal African migrants. Founded on the heels of the Nazi genocide, Israel finds itself torn between a sense of duty to take in people fleeing persecution and fears of an onslaught of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An African refugee walks down the steps to a shelter in Tel Aviv, in this photo taken Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. This week, the Israeli government plans to begin deporting thousands of illegal African migrants. Founded on the heels of the Nazi genocide, Israel finds itself torn between a sense of duty to take in people fleeing persecution and fears of an onslaught of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Protestas ante la llegada de trabajadores detenidos.
Por más de ocho meses el ICE investigó las operaciones de la fábrica, infiltrando gente, espiando y en general desarrollando una labor de investigacion policiaca que pareciera era un nido de terroristas o de otra gente mala la que ahí trabajaba.
La realidad era más simple –y que cualquiera que sabe como funciona la industria de la carne y muchas otras en el pais conoce: que cerca del 80% de los trabajadores eran indocumentados. La gran mayoría, latinos de México y Centro América (en este caso, una enorme cantidad de guatemaltecos).
Uno se pregunta sino habrán causas más importantes o urgentes para la seguridad del pais o de muchas ciudades que apenas tienen recursos para combatir el crimen y la violencia, que el perseguir a simples seres humanos que lo único que hacen es ganarse la vida trabajando como burros en el destazamiento y empaquetado de carne de res, de pollo y de pavo.
Habrá que ver qué sucede ahora con la fábrica. A ver adonde consiguen a los trabajadores "legales" que las autoridades –o el público que demanda acción contra los indocumentados- exigen. A ver que cristiano con documentos en regla acepta trabajar ocho brutales horas colgando reces por $7.25 la hora.
La acción del ICE es únicamente para hacer sentir bien a ciertos políticos en Washington y a los anti inmigrantes en todo el país que se alegran con la detención y deportación de indocumentados.
La redada no resuelve nada.
Más alla del temor y separación familiar –gente deportada o presa- que se ha generado entre los inmigrantes, lo del ICE es apenas una minúscula esquina en ese mundo hipócrita pero real de la economía estadounidense y los indocumentados que emplea.
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