Iowa adjusts to flood of Hispanic immigrants

Posted on: May 1st, 2006
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“Even deep in the Midwest, far from the Mexican border, communities like Marshalltown, Iowa, will feel the impact of a nationwide economic boycott planned by immigrant groups on Monday.

“I think a number of services will be shut down because of the lack of labor that day. Of course the whole point of this is to demonstrate to people throughout Iowa the growing importance of this population to our economy,” said Mark Grey, an anthropologist at the University of Northern Iowa.”

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