Immigration raid notebook – Iowa – (looks like ICE did use the National Cattle Congress grounds in Waterloo for the Postville raid) From: gazetteonline.com
Tagged: book, Iowa, Postville raidPosted on: May 14th, 2008
Interpreters hoping to help immigration lawyers arrived at the National Cattle Congress grounds in Waterloo around 9:15 this morning, but when they had not gained access to the site an hour later, most left.
Four interpreters requested by the lawyers to arrive were told by security officers guarding the entrance to go to the other side of the site to meet with security there. Those officers told them to go back to the first entrance and wait across the street.
“They told us we’re not cleared,” said Mario Basurto, 26, a program coordinator at El Centro Latinoamerica in Waterloo. “*
Curation from Tomás
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