Rokita investigating illegal immigrant surge, potential labor trafficking in 3 Indiana cities

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20 thoughts on “Rokita investigating illegal immigrant surge, potential labor trafficking in 3 Indiana cities

    1. He has experience getting sanctioned.

      It is such a shame for Hoosiers to be represented by a grandstanding clown like him.

  1. Our grand children will be facing calls for reparations bc, for the second time in our country’s history, we have trafficked nearly 4 million people into & around this country to be exploited for cheap/free labor. This continues to be our national disgrace.

    The same people who demand $15/hr minimum wage for citizens are providing slave wages to non-citizens for the same jobs, in cooperation with the cartels and “sanctuary” cities.

    I agree the school/university systems have failed to teach the basics of civics, history, math & economics.

    1. This is a wild take, comparing kidnapping people from Africa and bringing them to America unwillingly to be sold as property … to a program that migrants ask to be in, because the alternative is to stay in places like Haiti and be killed by gangs that even kill the people who run orphanages.

      What was that again about schools failing to teach history?

    2. It’s telling that you think it’s letting people from other countries work the jobs that nobody else wants to and start lives here that is the national disgrace and not the calls to lock them in internment camps or deport entire families, some of whom are US citizens, to countries where they never lived. I bet the nazi’s also thought similarly about their Jewish neighbors.

  2. I’m sure some of these people are good people but they broke the law. They need to go back to their homes. It has nothing to do with religion. We are a country of laws. In addition, we have citizens in dire need. Let’s call a spade a spade, citizens come first.

    1. What makes you think they are in the country illegally? Refugees usually have asylum status, and are in the USA legally.

    2. Oh, please. Republicans have never once cared about American citizens. They’re the ones who take away critical resources from communities by gutting domestic spending! What a dumb, bad-faith statement with no purpose other than to demonize people who ARE HERE LEGALLY (yes, TPS and asylum-seekers are legal). Shame on you.

    3. Our asylum-seeking system has been rendered a joke – clearly an end run around legal immigration. That’s why people like Walter can say they are in the USA “legally”. It is an IQ test. If you come to this country illegally, and DON’T claim asylum, you’re a fool. If they don’t show for their asylum “hearing”, are they then in the country illegally? Just asking.

  3. The Fox 59 story on Logansport by Angela Ganote stated that most of the immigrants there were children without parents or guardians. There can be nothing good that comes from that. Let Rokita do his job before it becomes a more serious problem.

    1. Great question, Joe B. IBJ should follow up on this. I was wondering the same thing as I read this story. The meat packing plants in Logansport are ground zero for this issue, have been for decades now.

  4. Great way to support Indiana. Attack businesses and shrink the labor pool.

    Now if businesses are exploiting undocumented immigrants, then I can see a really good reason to investigate.

  5. Could it be possible that Rokita’s investigation into illegal migrants flooding into Evansville, Logansport, and Seymour is because he has been told they are EATING THE DOGS, EATING THE CATS! in those communities? If so, he may be in line for an award from PETA.

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