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With yesterday’s announcement of some additional crackdowns across the country on illegal immigrants engaged in identity theft in order to falsify work status to gain employment at Swift processing plants, there is a chorus of groups trying to ensure that the none of the illegals get, God forbid, returned to their home countries.

But I never would have expected PETA to weigh in with support for keeping an illegal undocumented workforce in place in order to protect animals.

Yes, you heard it correctly.

You see, back in September, the ICE raided workers working at Crider Poultry in Stillmore, GA. The result was that some illegal workers (who previously had been warned that there were discrepancies in their documentation, by the way) were taken in custody and others fled the area. That caused much hand-wringing in response. Then last month, we heard that there were, in fact, workers willing “to do the jobs that Americans won’t do” in the plants, including felons on probation and homeless men who have now found gainful employment at the plant.

Now according to the AP, PETA now says that just won’t do. You might ask what their objection might be? Does the plant employ trained animals against their will? No… it’s even more bizarre than that:

An animal protection organization has raised objections to convicted felons being used to process chickens at a south Georgia poultry plant whose workforce was decimated by a crackdown on illegal immigrants working there.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Wednesday that it was concerned that criminals with violent pasts could be among the workers being bused from a probation center.

PETA said it wanted to point out “that chicken slaughterhouses are notorious for animal abuse and that staffing the plant with violent criminals is begging for violations of Georgia’s cruelty-to-animals laws.'’

So felons are not suitable for working in a poultry plant because being around this might cause them to start abusing animals outside of work?!?! Maybe they’ll also become vegitarians… would that be a bad thing too???

What a crock.

“Placing animals in the care of convicts with violent histories is like putting children in the care of child molesters,'’ PETA vice president Bruce Friedrich said.

Remind me not to have Mr. Friedrich involved in drafting child molestation laws if he draws a moral equivalence between convicted child molesters being placed with children and felons working voluntarily in a poultry processing plant.

At least we must be able to trust illegal immigrants to protect animals even though they work in the slaughterhouse, just like the ex-felons. After all felons can’t be trusted to observe animal cruelty laws, since they have previously broken laws in the past. Illegal immigrants haven’t broken any laws before…. well, oops.