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Title: Immigration Raid Leaves Mark on Iowa Town (Kosher Meat Packer)
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NPR
URL Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91327136
Published: Jun 9, 2008
Author: Tim Belay
Post Date: 2008-06-09 21:01:17 by buckeye
Keywords: None
Views: 207
Comments: 11
Nation by Tim Belay Listen Now [4 min 30 sec] add to playlist All Things Considered, June 9, 2008 · Postville, Iowa, is home to the kosher meat packer Agriprocessors, which was the target of a huge raid by federal immigration agents last month. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid may have a lasting effect on city finances and the plant itself. The tiny northeast town was home to the nation's largest kosher meatpacker, which recently lost nearly half of its work force after a huge raid by immigration officials. The raid sent shockwaves through the town, which has served as a multicultural model. Aaron Rubashkin, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, founded Agriprocessors in the town 20 years ago. The plant was turning out about half of the nation's kosher beef and chicken. Slaughter operations are now down to one shift instead of three as the company scrambles for replacement workers. It is expected that many of them will be Mexican-Americans from Texas. The plant brought diversity and prosperity to a town with three central streets and no stoplights. But after the raid, many here are wondering if the future of the town is in jeopardy. Some 2,300 people lived in Postville before the raid; about half of them were Hispanic KPVL radio, a local non-profit station, was created six years ago to broadcast in English, Spanish, and Hebrew. In today's Postville, station manager Jeff Abbas oversees a kind of bilingual sounding board. Abbas says most people expect Postville to recover. The slaughterhouse says it will hire a new chief executive soon, and people here are eagerly waiting to see if life returns to how it was before immigration agents decided to send hundreds of their neighbors back to their original home countries.
Poster Comment: Must hear. This story is rich in irony.
Immigration Raid Leaves Mark on Iowa Town
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#1. To: Tauzero, X-15, christine, Jethro Tull, Cynicom, scrapper2, Horse, Ada, DeaconBenjamin, mirage, Dakmar, RickyJ, rack42, lodwick (#0)
Suppress the laughter so you can grasp the significance of what you're hearing. I kid you not.
Saw the photos and background of the New York Jews that took over the town. Lot of rope is needed.
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No place is too small to benefit from diversity.
Keisha Brown, 21, from Chicago, whose mother has a nightgown with a picture of Obama on it, said, “Everything will be different now.”
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Immigration Raid Reveals Meth Lab At Nation's Largest Kosher Meat Plant consumerist.com/5009511/i...eals-meth-lab-at-nations- largest-kosher-meat-plant According to KCRG, officials discovered a methamphetamine lab within the AgriProcessors meat processing facility in Postville, Iowa during a large-scale immigration raid. 389 arrests were made by federal agencies from what is thought to be one of the largest immigration enforcement actions ever taken in the United States. Details, inside... /snip/
In this merry multicultural quilt called life, we are the black-eyed peas.
A blow against illegals AND the sick kosher treatment of livestock!!! LOL!!!
The Jews may not be responsible for all of America's ills ... that being said ... getting rid of them would go a long ways towards a cure !
Anyone that promotes the current State of Israel is either a fascist zionazi, a rapture nutter or simply too stupid to be considered.
You're an optimist.
Keisha Brown, 21, from Chicago, whose mother has a nightgown with a picture of Obama on it, said, “Everything will be different now.”
ETERNALLY
Anyone that promotes the current State of Israel is either a fascist zionazi, a rapture nutter or simply too stupid to be considered.
#2. To: buckeye (#1)
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
#4. To: buckeye (#0)
The plant brought diversity and prosperity to a town with three central streets and no stoplights.
#5. To: buckeye (#0)
#6. To: buckeye, All (#0)
This story is rich in irony.
#7. To: Tauzero (#4)
#8. To: buckeye (#1)
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: Cynicom (#2)
Lot of rope is needed.
#10. To: noone222 (#9)
#11. To: Tauzero (#10)
You're an optimist.
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