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Tag: Iowa immigrants
One Year After Immigration Raid, Postville, Iowa Struggles to Survive
By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editor Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the raid by immigration authorities on a kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa. The raid at Agriprocessors ended with the arrest of nearly 400 undocumented workers, and became a…
Who's Paying the Price for Immigration Crackdowns?
In an editorial today The New York Times castigates the Bush administration over the treatment of undocumented immigrants arrested at Agriprocessors, the Postville, Iowa meatpacking plant that was the site of the largest worksite immigration raid in US history. The Times accuses the administration…
Advice to Journalists: Keep the “immigration crisis” on the front burner
“Our job as journalists is to continue to write about the immigration crisis so it will earn the place it should have among the priorities of the new president.”