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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: 497
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  

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  

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

Not only that it's dirty work, but kosher slaughter practices, in particular, are very cruel and inhumane.

There was a Youtube video that I came across - I think the video was taken by a Humane Society "mole" in a kosher slaughterhouse and it was truly sickening.

scrapper2  posted on  2008-07-29   22:24:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#11. To: scrapper2 (#9)

Moderate Mammal just lit up a Hasbara specialist on LP by posting one.

buckeye  posted on  2008-07-29 22:25:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

...kosher slaughterhouse and it was truly sickening.

I've seen a video of it: they slit the creatures throat (no anesthesia) and let them bleed out. I see why the Nazi's outlawed it and I, too, would like to outlaw it.

X-15  posted on  2008-07-29 22:43:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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