Raid at Kosher "Jungle": "A National Disgrace"

The New York Times editorial page slams the Bush administration for its treatment of the hundreds of illegal workers arrested at the Jungle-like Agriprocessors slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa: "By treating illegal low-wage workers as a de facto criminal class, the government is trying to inflate the menace they pose to a level that justifies its rabid efforts to capture and punish them. That is a fraudulent exercise, and a national disgrace."