[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 20, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5348]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       STOP THE BARBARIC TACTICS

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, last night, Ohio was subjected to another 
Trump administration ICE worker raid involving rounding up 146 workers 
at meat processing plants in Salem, Canton, and Massillon, Ohio, making 
Ohio among the top States in the union where these workers have been 
poached.
  Again, Detroit-based ICE agents swooped into Ohio, fully armed, to 
round up dozens of workers who toil in one of the least attractive jobs 
in our Nation, cold, bloody, slippery, and, yes, dangerous, hard jobs 
in the meat processing industry, jobs U.S. citizens don't want.
  My message to President Trump: Stop the barbaric tactics. Stop 
breaking up working families.
  If we don't fix this system, these agricultural jobs will be 
offshored, and we will be importing even more of our food. Let us set 
up a dependable system to regularize the hiring of workers. Heartland 
States like Ohio are capable of creating a level playing field for 
businesses and workers from our country and abroad.
  To take the crime out of seeking employment in the Americas requires 
amending NAFTA and CAFTA by updating those accords to address 
continental employment standards.
  The President campaigned on reforming NAFTA. Well, Mr. President, we 
are making you an offer you shouldn't refuse. Show our workers and our 
companies some respect. We will meet you at any time, at any place to 
broker a better deal for Ohio and heartland workers.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Hollingsworth). Members are reminded to 
direct their remarks to the Chair.

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