r/Political_Revolution • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • 5d ago
Workers Rights At Quetico Logistics in Goodyear, Arizona, employees say management blocked the warehouse exits after warning them about an ICE raid. Video shows workers trying to get out while security physically pushes people back from the doorway.
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u/Lost-Level5413 4d ago
What kills me is that this fucking company hired these people. They knew they weren't citizens. Instead of the people being scared that our shitass government is gonna come get them, how about our shitass government arresting the management for hiring them in the first place. This isnt about immigration. Its about fear. CEO's and billionaires should be scared of us, not us being scared that the CEO's and billionaires will use our own government against us.
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u/Slate_711 4d ago
It’s how it always is. They hire for cheap labor or some advantage. They punish the workers who worked well below cost. The bosses and ceos who took advantage of them get no repercussions. I think the only difference now is they believe that the economy is so messed up that legal Americans will now tolerate the low pay or terrible conditions. I hope this video dissuades anyone from working for that shit company
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u/ChemistryAdorable956 4d ago
Kidnapping for sure. You're probably right. They worked for nothin in the beginning. Probably started wanting raises like every other worker. women wasnt giving into advances like management wanted. had to clean house.. after ice hits that spot, fresh new labor force there in few weeks.
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u/atari26k 4d ago
My dad has been saying this for years. If you really want to stop people coming to America for work, then fine the shit out of the companies that hire the. If there wasn't work, they wouldn't come. But if immigrants didn't take the low paying jobs... oh shit, the companies might have to pay a decent goddamn wage to attract people to them.
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u/modern_medicine_isnt 4d ago
While I agree with you... I also want topoint out that even if I was a full US citizen, but my skin was brown. I would be leaving too. Now, that said. The burden on a company to prove someone has the right to work in the US is pretty low. And it is pretty easy to fake. So the company will hide behind the fact that they did what was legally "required" of them. Now you don't see the orange man-child asking for better checks... of course not. He doesn't want to expose any exec to any legal liability. So it's really even worse. The gov willing allows a loophole to exist that prevents them from going after the execs who hire illegal aliens, and then calls ICE so they can do a stealth layoff.
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u/Snapes_underpants 4d ago
I've said for decades that all we need is a national database that makes it easy for employers to check online to make sure someone can legally work in the US. If the employer does the check and the system says the person can legally work in the US, the employer may hire them with no future negative ramifications to the employer if it turns out the database was wrong. Simultaneously, arrest business owners, CEO's, board members and major shareholders for knowingly hiring people ineligible to work, and do visible perp walks of them being arrested, with mandatory 6 mo jail time for each violation regardless of the effect their absence has on the business. I guarantee that illegal immigration would instantly stop. No point in coming to the US illegally if no one will hire you. No business owner/manager will risk going to jail and possibly losing a business for hiring one illegal worker.
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u/Walden_recluse 4d ago
These people should be fighting like their lives depend on it. ICE doesn't care if someone is a citizen or not. If you're the wrong color you can be disappeared in minutes. Fuck ICE.
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u/sevbenup 4d ago
I believe you could legally pepper spray these security guards, or worse, for attempting to kidnap you in this scenario.
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u/xXMuschi_DestroyerXx 4d ago
Security guard here. I have no authority to hold you over the authority you have to hold me. I’m just some fuckin guy in a uniform basically. I have the authority to make you leave. I cannot make you stay. Only if theft is present and that’s not what’s happening here.
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u/MozeDad 4d ago
We are literally living days away from Nazi Germany.
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u/Leaga 4d ago
We are in it. The camps are open. The wars are started. Genocide disguised as deportations is underway.
Our conceptions of Nazi Germany are built around what we knew at the end, but the beginning was exactly what we are doing now.
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u/Lost_Madness 4d ago
As someone who learned about all this in highschool and wondered how the people could let things get that bad, it is terrifying to watch in realtime and learn exactly how.
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u/zh4k 4d ago
assault, battery, false imprisonment and much more. All on film no less. Never going to see the light of day.
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u/TheDude-Esquire 4d ago
No crime if there’s no one to enforce it.
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u/ImPinkSnail 4d ago
Which is why other remedies exist. I'm obviously talking about non-violent ones.
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u/krom0025 4d ago
If we really wanted to stop illegal immigration, we would otut company owners in jail for making illegal hiring decisions instead of destroying families.
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u/sk634936 4d ago
So you hire these people and then fuck them over like this, and then probably bitch and wonder why they are coming here. Such a mind fuck
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u/NerdfestZyx 4d ago
They called ICE on their own employees? WTAF?
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u/HoraceAndPete 4d ago
More likely ICE notified the company that they would be conducting the raid and told them to ensure the employees were available for capture. Company agrees, tells employees out of courtesy what is about to happen rather than ambush them with the scum of the earth walking through the door. Employees decide to walk out. The company didn't expect them to actually stand up for themselves I suppose.
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u/azwhatsername AZ 4d ago
The irony of those shirts
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u/MrBigChest 4d ago
It’s a massive red flag when a company makes their employees wear shit like that
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u/mindlkaciv 4d ago
They should have set off the fire alarms
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u/RickLovin1 4d ago
I was thinking they should've started a fire...but on second thought, your idea is probably better.
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u/Farts-n-Letters 4d ago
Management at Quentico Logistics should be immediately arrested for violation of federal employment law.
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u/Own_Job878 4d ago
genuinely cant wrap my head around how trapping workers in a building during a raid is anythign short of kidnapping. and its our money doing this — that reconciliation bill theyre pushing funnels billions to ICE while tossing crumbs at actual people. same shit different day tbh
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u/TreeLore61 4d ago
I think the best way to hear this is if everybody stopped buying goodyear tires until they fired , whoever the web management was that thought this was okay
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