A year ago this week, nearly four hundred men and women were corralled into the National Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa, in an immigration raid that has come to be known as one of the least-just immigration operations in U.S. history.
In fact, since the raid happened on May 12th, 2008, religious leaders and elected officials across the nation have come out strongly in condemnation of the abuses that took place in Postville, Iowa. Not Congressman Steve King, however.
In a December 2008 op-ed in the Des Moines Register, King praised the immigration raid in Postville, calling it a "step in the right direction."
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