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Postville Mayor: Recovery Could Take Years

By Lynda Waddington 6/6/08

Although Postville Mayor Robert Penrod believes his community is slowly working its way back to something akin to life the way it was before a May 12 federal immigration raid on Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant, he also freely admits that it is going to be a slow and perhaps painful process.

Braley and Latham’s Differences Mirror Ongoing National Debate

By Lynda Waddington 6/5/08

Iowa — in particular the small town of Postville — is currently at the core of a long-waged public debate on immigration. The federal operation there on May 12, the aftermath of deportations and criminal sentencing, as well as the current silence in relation to the investigation against the employer encompass the multitude of issues [...]

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