An ICE Raid in Iowa City and the Real ‘Enemy From Within’

The Trumpian politics of “us against them” is not only turning neighbor against neighbor, it will eventually take a massive toll on local, state, and federal resources and upend a growing U.S. economy

Jorge Elieser González Ochoa with his wife and infant son. González was arrested at the Bread Garden Market in Iowa City Thursday by plainclothes federal agents.

By Michael Judge

Nearly two decades ago, I wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal titled, “Iowa’s Job Thieves.” The title was an attempt at irony by my editor at the Journal, who, along with the editorial board, was fervently pro-immigration.

The piece, dated March 17, 2007, was published three months after an early morning raid by Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, in Marshalltown, Iowa, that resulted in the arrest of 90 local Swift & Co. meatpacking employees, many of them with children born in the U.S. attending local schools. The Marshalltown workers were among some 1,300 taken into custody at six Swift plants nationwide and charged with working under fraudulent Social Security numbers and other false documents.

The opening paragraph reads:

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