To Be Announced...

I saw this story in the Sunday Gazette yesterday and just about choked on my coffee as I was reading it.

Note about the Gazette: In some cases, the Cedar Rapids Gazette requires you to log in and view their digital version of the newspaper. It may or may not require a subscription. Therefore, I cannot be entirely certain the link included below will function properly.

Marion mayor to announce crackdown on illegal hiring

You can understand why I just about spit the coffee in my mouth onto the paper when you read the segments I posted below. I almost ran to the phone to call everyone I knew to tell them about it. Too bad the story was on the inside lower left page 2. It should have been on the front page. This is virtually unheard of and is sure to rattle a few cages in the area.

MARION — Mayor John Nieland will use his annual Mayor’s State of the City address this year to also announce a crackdown involving undocumented workers.

Nieland will announce that Marion’s Police Department will work with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants in the city

‘‘The mayor got some reports from local labor unions that this is a problem’’ of sorts in Marion, Daugherty said, adding some union representatives may attend the address. He said the union reports will be checked out. The chief said past crackdowns on illegal immigrants have resulted in the arrest of offenders.

Plans are to train a Marion police officer for five weeks who would then be deputized as a U.S. Marshal, Daugherty said.

It's also a little strange considering the heads-up came from a local labor union.

I've always suspected that local labor unions are quite a bit different than their national counterparts. Most are hard working good folks who want to do right by themselves and their families. It's the national unions that keep sucking up their union dues to pay their $330,000 dollar salaries so they can court lawmakers in Washington and oppose efforts to stop illegal immigration.

And it's doubly strange considering what Marshalltown has done in the past...

In Marshalltown, the mayor and city council members visited the village in Mexico where a large proportion of Hispanic immigrants come from, and met their families.

You'll have to read far into the article to find the tidbit about Marshalltown's former mayor Floyd Harthun and gang traveling to Villachuato, Mexico to see if they could learn something about Marshalltown’s newest workers and taxpayers.

Here's a better link to the Cato Institute story about the trip.

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