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With Montana’s first dog, Jag, frolicking nearby, that state’s bolo-tie-wearing governor, Brian Schweitzer, fielded questions at Sen. Tom Harkin’s steak fry Sunday in Indianola. A popular Democrat from a conservative Mountain West state, he shared his thoughts on the tightening presidential race, and he connected his own family history to the subject of immigration reform.

By LORENA LOPEZ and DOUGLAS BURNS

DENISON — Several frightened Hispanics, some crying with kids clearly in the background, made frantic telephone calls to a western Iowa Spanish-language paper over the last two days seeking information on what they mistakenly believed to be the start of a Postville-style raid in Denison, a community with a burgeoning [...]

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards tells the western Iowa Spanish-language newspaper La Prensa that he’s consistent on the issue of whether illegal immigrants should be able to obtain drivers’ licenses.

In the wake of Edwards’ somewhat confusing answer on ABC’s “This Week,” La Prensa questioned Edwards on whether he had changed his mind on the controversial [...]

The general manager of La Prensa, a western Iowa Spanish-language newspaper with a growing voice, says he believes U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has a pattern of “taking rhetorical shots” at Hispanics.
“I don’t think he justifies his reasons,” says Carlos A. Arguello, the general manager of the newspaper, tells Iowa Independent.
Arguello’s comments come as the [...]

One of the more influential venues for discussion and debate in western Iowa’s burgeoning Hispanic community is published in Carroll.

The 1-year-old Spanish-language paper, La Prensa (The Press), is a family operation, the product of an ambitious mother-son team originally from Nicaragua but with deepening roots in Carroll.