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| "Hunters in the Snow" (1565) by Pieter Breugel the Elder |
According to Soni, Ladner felt that it was "downright dishonorable" for ICE to force him to "pick up an undocumented man in his fifties to deport him over a decades-old drug offense" (319).
Why would Ladner consider it "dishonorable" for ICE to arrest and deport someone who broke the law? Isn't that their job?
And if Ladner believed it was unfair for ICE to serve private employers "to exploit immigrant reconstruction workers after Katrina, calling in raids on payday to avoid having to pay them," why did he help out Signal when they called in ICE to capture the undocumented workers who abandoned the work camps?
Only answer this question after you've read part six, chapter nine and all of the preceding chapters.
I think that Ladner feeling that ICE deporting a man who had been in the U.S. for numerous years at the point of his deportation was dishonorable is because of the circumstances. Ladner states that the drug charge was decades in age, he also mentions the man is in his fifties. I think he takes pity on the man who in his time in the U.S. had probably made a life for at least himself let alone anyone he was supporting. We know Ladner is descended from hunters ,and we know he worked big drug cases where he hunted down smugglers who were not easy to capture. So we know he enjoys the hunt.The stipulation with that is I think he enjoys a hunt against a worthy opponent. So finding and deporting a man who happened to be undocumented with a decades-old deportable offense and shipping him of with nothing he can do does not meet Ladner's standards of a worthy opponent. So he finds it dishonorable to prey on something or someone who is completely at your mercy.
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