Rounding up the Mexicans
Over 100 officials burst into the plant. These were the same officials who had been known, in previous similar raids, to have “used humiliation, opposite-sex searches and long periods of secrecy.” Here is how it went down:
Larson said the agents told workers to stay in place then separated them by asking those with identification to stand to the right and those with other papers, to stand to the left.“There was plenty of hollering,” Larson said. “You couldn’t go anywhere.”
When asked who was separated, Larson said those standing in the group with other papers were all Hispanic.
In America.
I remember when we didn’t live in a society where hundreds of people could be rounded up and asked for their papers.