Immigrants feel distress, shock, nun says – Postville, Iowa raid From: desmoinesregister.com
Tagged: IowaPosted on: May 21st, 2008
Sister Kathy Thill of Waterloo said she feels like a stranger in her own country in the wake of a May 12 immigration raid in tiny Postville.
…”I am also a United States citizen who grew up believing that this is a democratic country in which the dignity of all people is respected and their rights protected,” she said Tuesday at a news conference here, surrounded by members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
“This is not the country I experienced this past week.”
Thill, several times choking up with emotion, told of the shock and distress of immigrants who gathered at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church the day of the raid.”*
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