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The Sanctuary on Postville, Iowa
The Sanctuary has in-depth accounts and critical analysis of what happened in Postville, Iowa: On Monday, May 12, 2008, at 10:00 am, in an operation involving some 900 agents, Immigration and. ...

Postville Iowa - An Open Air Detention Center: Pro-Migrant ...
Another Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody at WOCPhd. Also The Impact of Immigration Raids on "Non-Targeted" Women (on the Postville raids), Feminist Spotlight: LATINAS, Stephanie Tubbs Jones Dies (Feminist Spotlight) and Feminist Spotlight: ...

Finding America: Father Paul Ouderkirk, Postville, Iowa, Part 1
This is an interview with Father Paul Ouderkirk, a pastor at St.Bridget's Roman Catholic Church in Postville, Iowa. Father Ouderkirk was a pastor there for four years and a visiting Spanish mass reader for a lot longer, before retiring ...

Somalis on the march to Postville, Iowa
POSTVILLE, Iowa - Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Hispanic workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and forcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift ...

Omar Jamal's name comes up in Postville, Iowa
And, for new readers, Postville, Iowa is another meatpacking town, this one with the Jewish meatpacking plant that was raided awhile back and is now importing Somalis from Minnesota. Go back here for a refresher on Postville. ...

Protests and Counter-Protests In Postville Iowa
Some Protesters Supporting ICE, Some Protesting Agriprocessors, Some Demanding Immigration Reform Organizers Imported Protesters From Other States. Supporters came from Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Texas and Wisconsin and elsewhere to ...

Short Take: Postville, Iowa
"They took one-sixth of the town, one-third of the school, and one-half of the parish...There was good will among the people. All the work of the diversity committee--ten years of work--they wiped away in one day." ...

Citizens of Postville, Iowa report ICE has created “open-air ...
Read More in English: www.latinalista.net Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish.

Criminal Proceedings in Agriprocessors Raid in Postville, Iowa
On May 12th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the Kosher meat-packing plant in Postville Iowa, detaining approximately 400 undocumented immigrants. Since then controversy has swirled around the raid and its aftermath. ...

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