ICE terror removes hard working employees in Iowa
Echo opinion letter published in the Iowan newspaper The Hawk Eye:
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| ICE is seizing immigrants like a Trumpzi Gestapo |
On Tuesday, July 3, Donald Trump cruelly said the raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are like “liberating a town or area.”
I would like to reflect on the cruel “liberation” of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
I would like to reflect on the cruel “liberation” of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
ICE removed 32 employees of a locally owned business. These men were paying taxes, renting housing, buying groceries — in short, contributing to the local economy. Now that infusion of money into Mount Pleasant is lost, along with the Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, income taxes sales taxes, gas taxes, and other excise taxes.
(Yes, undocumented workers pay a lot of taxes.)
Meanwhile, a local business is unable to fill those jobs. No one else seems to want to do the work those 32 did. And the ripple effects for those depending on the production of that company, delays that can hurt this company’s customers. If all the children of those men leave their schools, the local school district could lose $700,000 in state payments, a loss that the district could ill afford. While Mount Pleasant is being “liberated” from the economic contribution of those 32 workers, the government is spending $150 and $300 per day to house and process these men. They have been shifted from net contributors to net drains on local, state, and national funds.
The stories of these ICE raids seem the same. I have yet to read a story about a horde of MS-13 gang-bangers being rounded up—only hard working men and women actually contributing to the life of their communities. If this is Trump’s idea of liberation, I would like to take a pass.
Jeff Fager, Mount Pleasant
Meanwhile, a local business is unable to fill those jobs. No one else seems to want to do the work those 32 did. And the ripple effects for those depending on the production of that company, delays that can hurt this company’s customers. If all the children of those men leave their schools, the local school district could lose $700,000 in state payments, a loss that the district could ill afford. While Mount Pleasant is being “liberated” from the economic contribution of those 32 workers, the government is spending $150 and $300 per day to house and process these men. They have been shifted from net contributors to net drains on local, state, and national funds.
The stories of these ICE raids seem the same. I have yet to read a story about a horde of MS-13 gang-bangers being rounded up—only hard working men and women actually contributing to the life of their communities. If this is Trump’s idea of liberation, I would like to take a pass.
Jeff Fager, Mount Pleasant
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