Immigration Raid in Iowa: Up to 700 Arrested

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Monday May 12, 2008 · 12:19 PM PDT

2008/05/12 · 12:19

Iowa has been anticipating an immigration raid since Homeland Security leased the National Cattle Congress fairgrounds in Waterloo late last week (as diaried by isucyclones94). The raid went down this morning at the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. The plant is known as the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and was opened in 1987 by Hasidic Jews from New York. Postville has about 2500 residents and has a substantial Jewish and immigrant community that includes many native Mexicans and Eastern Europeans.

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