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Title: After raid, Iowa town deals with Somali immigrants
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728 ... t=Aq7p0GgPmt75Oj6DWgNymddvzwcF
Published: Jul 29, 2008
Author: AP
Post Date: 2008-07-29 18:50:57 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 556
Comments: 31

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.

Before the May 12 raid at Agriprocessors, hundreds of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants maintained a vibrant community in Postville, a largely white community of 2,200 people in northeast Iowa.

Now the stoops and haunts once occupied by Hispanics are being filled by about 150 Somali men.

Aydurus Farah, a 21-year-old who immigrated from Somalia in 2004, set out for work in meatpacking plants to make money for his family back home in Somalia.

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#3. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

Gah.

I used to say I never met an African that I didn't like. Then I met Somalis.

Almost to a man, they're filthy, uncouth, sexist, and rude.

Have fun, Iowegians. Bet you'll be missing the Guatemalans...

Indrid Cold  posted on  2008-07-29   21:43:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

As of 2003, Minnesota was the home to 60,000 refugees from Somalia. Who knew?

scrapper2  posted on  2008-07-29   22:01:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#5. To: scrapper2 (#4)

Plenty of willing workers for the Kosher slaughter houses. Dirty work, you see. Not something most Americans would want to do.

buckeye  posted on  2008-07-29 22:04:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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