Earlier this year, immigrants rights advocates voiced their outrage over the shameful treatment of 400 undocumented workers who were arrested by Immigration Customs & Enforcement during a raid of Agriprocessors, a Postville, Iowa kosher meatpacking plant.  The detainees were separated from their families and herded like livestock into a cattle ground. Sadly, these immigrant workers were no stranger to human rights violations on the day of the raid. The AP has the story:

The owner and managers of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant were charged Tuesday with more than 9,000 misdemeanors alleging that they hired minors and in some cases had children younger than 16 handle dangerous equipment such as circular saws, meat grinders and power shears. [...]

"All of the named individual defendants possessed shared knowledge that Agriprocessors employed undocumented aliens. It was likewise shared knowledge among the defendants that many of those workers were minors," the affidavit said.

Amazingly, these violations were all amassed over an eight-month stretch and none of the employees were paid wages for overtime.