Nuestra Voice » MERRY CHRISTMAS: ICE MOCKS LATINO BELIEVERS – (“Operation Tamale”)

Hat to Man Eegee

Every Christmas season from December 24th to the Day of the Three Kings Mexicans and Americans of Mexican descent celebrate by sharing their tradition of hospitality and good will by making, or purchasing and then sharing, Tamales. The tradition runs deep in the Latino collective memory since Tamales predate Christ and most of western “civilization”. It is understood that the Aztecs greeted their incoming conquerors with the tightly wrapped festival food.

Apparently making tamales is a job that many Americans want. Monday in its continuing effort to insure that Americans can have Tamale making jobs ICE raided an American Tamale factory and deported twenty-one workers. To add insult to injury ICE agents named the raid “OPERATION TAMALE”.”*

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