For the love of chicken wings

If you know me you know I really really don't like chicken wings at all. They're nasty and hard to get the meat off of and they are usually covered in dark meat, which I cannot stand at all. I usually will bite into the bone, that's a really really gross feeling, or I will accidentally get a piece with a lot of gristle in it and won't be able to chew it at all because it's so disguisting.

There truly is a point for me bringing up the discussion on chicken wings. Last year when the Postville meat packing plant immigration raid happened, almost a third of their workers were busted for either not been a citizen, having a green card, visa, or working at the plant underage. People as young as 14 years old were working at the meat packing plant, while you can normally work at 14 years of age, the conditions at the factory were such that the age requirement of eighteen years old was required.

The factory at Postville was required to shut its doors for about too weeks time, when they pulled workers up form texas to help them get the company back under way. The poultry department was opened, though they have been moving with about half the force they had been before the raid, and for the time being the beef department/ area has been kept closed because of lack of workers.

I'm not here to debate the morality of the deportation of hundreds of these migrant workers, though they were doing jobs that no one else wanted, for lower wages. The got paid lower wages because the company didn't have to pay social security taxes on the wages of the workers. Many people will say that, that is a completely immoral thing to not pay taxes, but the workers who were there weren't actually eligible for social security or anything like that, so it wasn't really hurting anyone.