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When Soni discovered that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and undercover agents had been surveilling the marchers and recording them, he produced and delivered "an enraged report" (177).
Why was he enraged?
Weren't the agents doing their jobs?
Why didn't the agents simply arrest them because they were in the country illegally?
Answer this question after you've read part four, chapter four.
Soni was obviously enraged for the fact that they were being recorded. Falsely claiming emergency and pulling the fire alarm, the men were ushered outside so that immigration had explicit evidence of them being in the hotel. The reason the agents didn't simply arrest them was because they wanted to televise it: if they arrest them after getting the support of news networks and media, then the likelihood of a revolt happening again become slimmer. You have to thin the idea out before you arrest the idea. Make people support the arrests before you arrest.
ReplyDeleteI agree. The agents were manipulating the media and the workers themselves. They were making them scared and intimidated, and also waning off supporters. Soni saw through this, and that is why he became angry. He saw how he and the workers were being taken advantage of once again by American agents.
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