The ICE Men Cometh: “Operation Tamale” Is Not Half As Delicious As It Sounds

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, recently raided a tamal factory and deported twenty-one workers in an operation called -”Operation Beanie Roast”- “Operation Tamale:”

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”.

And may all your Christmases be white:

Fifteen days before the celebration of the birth of Christ ICE agents embarked on “Operation Tamale” and divided families and sent fear into the hearts of hard working immigrants all over the country….fifteen days before Christmas, the official tamale eating holiday. ICE agents played Herod in the pageant play that has been enacted since right wing talk show hosts discovered that good ratings are born by bulling those that won’t complain to their sponsors. Immigrant bashing also has the added benefit of venting the anger of a working class rightly fearful of the economic results of an administration that feathers the pockets of the elite, while providing only the opium of modern day coliseum brutality to everyone else.

The Tamale tradition has now been marred by ICE leadership that saw not only no need for Christmas mercy but that deliberately named their cruelly timed raid in a racist and mocking manor.

We’re going to go ahead and refrain from automatically calling this operation “racist” based on the name because, you know, it was a tamal factory. We also don’t think ICE usually places raids on hold for the holidays, nor would they necessarily have remembered that tamales are a holiday food based on their extensive coursework in “Cultural Sensitivity 101.” We are, however, going to go ahead and call them all raging, power-hungry assholes anyway. Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS: ICE MOCKS LATINO BELIEVERS [Nuestra Voice]