What’s Next for Postville? – (update: near 400 arrested – town may dry up)- Iowa – (you should read the comments below the original article) From: kcrg.com
Tagged: IowaPosted on: May 14th, 2008
Postville was already a small town of 2,300 before the raid. Now city officials say many people are fleeing in fear, not to mention the near 400 plant workers detained.
More than a third of the workers at the city’s largest business are gone. Without those workers many fear Agriprocessors will shut down. If that happens, the mayor says 95% of the shops here will dry up. Petrona Garcia’s convenience store is the only Hispanic business in town with customers the day after the raid.
“All the shops are closed. Not one is open. No one even comes to them,” said Petrona Garcia, business owner.”*
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