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Posts Tagged meatpacking

Obama administration continues quiet crackdown on undocumented workers

By | 01.21.11 | 3:45 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Image by Matt MahurinScenes of massive immigration raids in the Iowa communities of Postville and Marshalltown have faded from the public’s collective memory, and current federal officials appear to want to keep it that way.

Conservative Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Makes Strong Case for Legalization

By | 03.19.09 | 8:33 pm

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a research organization that favors restricting immigration, released a report Wednesday analyzing a set of immigration raids at six Swift meatpacking plants conducted in December 2006 in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas and Utah. The raids led to the arrest of about 1,300 More…