The News Line: Editorial
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
LABOUR PUTS MIGRANTS IN CHAINS
YESTERDAY THE BBC repeated throughout the day film of a police and
immigration officials raid on a chicken factory in Derby****re, to
which the BBC was invited along to film, for government propaganda
purposes.
The BBC describes the raid as follows: =91About 60 officers, backed up
by the police, walked into a chicken processing factory in Derby****re.
Police intelligence had suggested that illegal immigrants were working
there.
=91In a large processing room 56 workers, all of them from overseas,
were preparing chicken pieces for the retail trade.
=91UK BIA officers burst into the room, shouting loudly and telling the
workers to put their knives down.
=91The shocked workers were lined up against a wall and told they would
be questioned to see if they were in the country legally.
=91After several hours of questioning it was determined that 22 of the
workers were illegal immigrants. Fingerprints were taken and paperwork
examined.
=91The illegal immigrants, from a variety of countries including
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, were led out of the building in
handcuffs and taken to police stations.
=91The rest of the workers were sent home.=92
The employer was not put up against the wall or put in handcuffs and
taken off to a police station.
It was the workforce who were shocked and terrified, presumed to be
guilty until it was otherwise proven, while those sent home by the
policemen no doubt lost their pay.
And this is an example of the operation of legislation that is
supposedly directed against the employer!
As well, the BBC did not reveal whether any of the boarding party of
arresting officers were armed =96 presumably they were.
As far as the employer is concerned, the BBC revealed that
=91Investigations into the owners of the company are ongoing and so far
no fines have been levied.=92 It adds: =91If no satisfactory excuse is
forthcoming sizeable fines can follow,=92 The figure quoted is between
=A35,000 and =A310,000!
It is obvious that this is legislation that is being used by the state
to terrify migrant workers.
Meanwhile two workers have been de****ted, 20 may well be being held in
custody pending inquiries and the remainder, having been kept against
their will for a number of hours, now know to fear the state.
One would think that the Labour government would be ashamed of images
of such racist, police state raids going into every home, via the BBC.
The BBC re****t, however, does not say when the police state raid on
the chicken factory took place.
In fact the raid took place on April 15th and there was no rush to
make it public.
Why now then? There will be more than a suspicion that the sudden
appearance of this material is something to do with the fact that the
Brown government is extremely unpopular, and that someone in the
government thinks that making public such material now will help to
increase the popularity of the government, by winning the racist vote.
In a situation where hundreds of thousands of white eastern Europeans
have been entering the UK legally as part of the EU citizenry, the
people that the Brown government is raiding and lining up against the
wall, before taking the presumed guilty away in handcuffs to be
de****ted, are all black or brown, and many of them are Muslims. These
are racist attacks!
The News Line condemns the government=92s police raids on migrants,
looking for illegals.
The arch sup****ters of globalisation and the free movement of capital
and capitalists are completely opposed to the free movement of black
and brown workers.
We call for the repeal of all racist immigration acts and for working
people to be able to move and settle and work where they wish.
Racism and racist immigration acts are part of the divide and rule
strategy of capitalism.
Workers of the world must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism,
and their offshoot racialism, through the victory of the socialist
revolution.
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