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Unions Are Training Hotel Workers to Face Down Immigration Raids
Hotel workers in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York have been gathering for training sessions recently on how to handle visits from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sessions, organized by the labor union Unite Here!, teach workers how to effectively stonewall ICE agents, emphasizing employees’ right to refuse to answer questions or show identification.
Organizers don dark sunglasses or jackets and role-play as ICE agents, with a “good cop” entreating the volunteers with lines such as “You look like a good person,” and a bad cop screaming threats at them. “I need you guys to be just absolute assholes,” organizer Hugo Soto, a former hotel worker who helped develop the training program, tells colleagues when preparing them to portray agents. “We need to train ourselves to be able to beat ICE.”
As part of President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, ICE arrests have spiked about 40 percent, and the pool of targets considered priorities for deportation has vastly expanded. “If you are in this country illegally,” Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan testified in May, then “you need to be worried.”
Labor groups are at the forefront of the resistance, staging rallies and walkouts against Trump’s travel ban and lobbying for such bills as a California measure restricting law enforcement from collaborating with ICE and a proposed Orlando ordinance limiting immigrant detention. In May the national AFL-CIO offered its affiliates a 200-page toolkit explaining how to train workers to respond to immigration raids.
Unions also are trying to use collective bargaining to tie companies’ hands. Unite Here says curbing collaboration with ICE will be a priority in bargaining for the 270,000 hotel, casino, and food-service workers it represents, almost half of whose contracts expire within the next year.
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CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY PLANNED OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Austin Morgan
Aiden Reyes
Christ, learn how to format properly, OP.
Adrian Davis
Do your job FBI and quit playing around on Holla Forums you fucking retard.
Lucas Rivera
Lol OP is ICE and is a butthurt fag. But thanks for the info. What exactly do you expect Holla Forums to do other then be mad? Jew york, los kikess, and shitcago are all pozzed hell holes anyways.
Aiden Stewart
Typical tricks, Shlomo.
Zachary Robinson
Unions can't even negotiate for a living wage, what are they going to do against federal agents?
Tyler Thomas
I wonder if that union has ever showed up to protest working conditions or to get them better benefits or wages. Now THAT would be news amirite?
Nathan Foster
This is pretty apparent. The masses are waking up to apathy.
Gavin Adams
LMAO unions gonna get RICO'd
Kayden Wood
that would be epic
as it fucking should be