I looked around at the coverage of the Swift & Co raid after an attentive VDARE.COM reader tipped us off about a possible riot situation. As it turns out, the riot was cleanly avoided (thanks to some clever maneuvering by police) but some interesting issues were raised in the meantime:

• As the second of three sets of buses left the Swift & Co. plant carrying away the illegals, a thinning crowd of 150-200 shouted at the ICE and police officers. One man shouted, “You break up these families at Christmas time. Give these people some answers,” while a woman nearby carried a sign saying “Don’t take my parents at Christmas.”

So, by their logic we should forget about the hundreds of victims of identity theft suffering on Christmas; let the victims rot until it’s more convenient for the criminals to leave their families.

Also noteworthy: “Don’t take my parents over Dec. 25th” doesn’t have quite the same ring.

• The protestors initially planned to block the buses from leaving with the criminals, and then pushed over a police barricade, but both times were subdued by police and SWAT teams.

  One man screamed in the face of police: “We’re not going to take this anymore. We’re going to fight back…”

  Andres Guerrero, who teaches Spanish at Aims Community College, joined the protesters. He said, “In ten years we’re going to take over the southland, trust me. “This is our land and always will be our land.”

Email Professor Guerrero here.

• A single ICE supporter showed up at the protest. After approaching the fence line, he shouted, “I support what you’re doing, and a lot of people support what you’re doing.” Hearing him, a the protestors descended on the man (who only identified himself as “Gary”) and chased him down the street, shouting threats to him and his family. He got a police escort out.

Now that it’s all gone down, the Greeley Tribune is posting the individual arrest warrants of some of the illegals who were taken away. Interestingly, in most cases, the arrest warrants give the names both of the ID thieves and their victims, usually other Hispanics.

For more detailed information, look here. You’ll find links for all of the relevant Greeley Tribune articles as well as a slideshow, and video and an audio clip. (Multimedia of ICE raid on Swift plant, The Greeley Tribune , December 12, 2006 and New buses arrive, protests continue December 12, 2006 )

A follow-up to our Saturday report by Scott Richert, Jihad in Rockford, IL: What the MSM Won’t Tell You, via the Rockford Files. Scott Richert’s interview with WIFR is below, and he says that

Two other segments from the same WIFR broadcast are available here and here.

…more or less. I found this in IMDB’s quotes.

To demonstrate the villainy of the Sheriff of Nottingham, played by Alan Rickman, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, they give him this line.

Sheriff of Nottingham: Wait a minute. Robin Hood steals money from my pocket, forcing me to hurt the public, and they love him for it?
[Scribe nods]
Sheriff of Nottingham: That’s it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. Memorable Quotes from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

In May of 2004, VDARE.COM’s own Ed Rubenstein predicted that between 75,000 and 2.5 million Iraqis will seek resettlement in the U.S. as a result of the Iraq war. Needless to say, his predictions got very little attention at the time. (National Data: Will War Bring 2.5 Million Iraqi “Refugees”? by Edwin S. Rubenstein, VDARE.COM 05/25/2004)

Now, however, reality has struck at the Boston Globe :

While acknowledging that the administration originally set a quota of no more than 500 Iraqi refugees, [Ellen Sauerbrey, assistant secretary of state for refugees and migration] said the president has the legal authority to admit 20,000 additional refugees.

Eventually, specialists said, the number of Iraqi refugees settling in the United States could be vastly higher.

Citing instability in Iraq, a spokesman from the U.N. has said that most Iraqis will want to resettle in the West.

In particular, more than 120,000 Christians who have fled Iraq are unlikely to go home and about 100,000 of them want to come to the United States, where many have relatives, according to a group representing the Christians. A great many of the estimated 1.4 million Iraqi Muslims also are expected to try to resettle, many in the West, according to UN officials.

And don’t worry, they’re already tripping over themselves to secure the forthcoming policy’s political correctness:

Officials at the State Department and the United Nations said they understand the danger facing Iraqi Christians but said they don’t want to give the impression that they would favor Christians over Muslims in a resettlement program. Any decisions regarding admission will be based on a family’s vulnerability, not religion, officials said.

“The one thing we have to be very clear about is, if we were to admit only Christians, or at least a big majority of Christians and not other groups, this would just fuel the whole debate” about the West favoring Christians, said Cheng-Hopkins.

(Iraqi exodus could test Bush policy, by Michael Kranish, The Boston Globe 12/11/06)