Lawsuit Challenges Meatpacking Raid

We regularly discuss the problems with racial profiling in immigration enforcement in the United States.  Here is the latest.  Forbes reports that a lawsuit earlier this week claims that federal immigration agents who raided a meatpacking plant detained Hispanic workers, hurled racial epithets at them and forced the women among them to take off their clothes, while white workers were spared the harsh treatment. The lawsuit was filed in federal court by Centro Legal, an immigrant rights group, on behalf of 10 workers at Swift & Co.’s Worthington, Minnesota plant who are in the U.S. legally. More than 200 undocumented immigrants in Worthington were arrested Dec. 12 as part of a six-state raid of Swift plants that netted more than 1,200 undocumented workers.