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Minnesota rights activists protest immigrant arrests in Iowa

Posted on: May 19th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Community ] [ Immigration ] [ Minnesota ] [ Minneapolis ]
Tags: activist, immigrant rights, protest
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A group of about 50 immigrant rights activists rallied in south Minneapolis Friday afternoon to protest the arrest of nearly 400 people at a kosher meatpacking plant in northeast Iowa this week.

At least 390 people were detained on immigration charges at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville on Monday.”*