Postville Latino community leaders ask, “What good comes from tearing so many families apart?” (Latina Lista) From: latinalista.net
Tagged: Guatemala, Guatemalan, Iowa, Latina Lista, Postville raidPosted on: May 20th, 2008
“We only want to know one thing — what good comes from displacing so many families?
Mario Basurto, project coordinator of the Centro Latinoamericano, asking about the ICE raid in Postville, Iowa.Yesterday’s Postville raid at the Agriprocessors’ plant is being boasted as the state’s largest raid netting 390 undocumented immigrants: 290 Guatemalans; 93 Mexicans and a handful of Ukranians and Israelis.
All of the detainees are being held at the National Cattle congress grounds. Among those detained, twelve were minors believed to be 16 and 17-years-old.”*
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