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Latina Lista: News from the Latinx perspective > Postville

Culture, Film, General, Human Rights, Immigration, Politics

New short film follows Postville deportees home and their continuing struggle to survive

Aug 3, 2009, 9:25 AM 0

LatinaLista — One of the Guatemalan immigrants, Willian Toj, who was apprehended and deported in May 2008 from Postville, Iowa wasn’t just working illegally in the United States at the meatpacking plant to send money back home — he…

Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Palabra Final

Government how-to manual on expediting guilty pleas from undocumented immigrants uncovered by ACLU

Jul 31, 2008, 9:38 PM 25

LatinaLista — This week, we learned from a Justice Department report that the White House interfered in the hiring of immigration judges by politicizing the hires. In other words, if the candidates met the conservative criteria or were recommended…

Immigration, Palabra Final, Politics, Social Justice

New video unmasks the “Hidden System” of federal deportations and detentions

Jul 29, 2008, 10:20 AM 28

LatinaLista — This past Sunday, over 1,000 people marched the streets of Postville, Iowa to protest the nation’s largest immigration raid. The protesters, men, women and children, joined together in crying out against the working conditions at the Agriprocessors…

Government, Human Rights, Immigration, Palabra Final

Eyewitness comes forward to tell the true story of what happened at Postville, Iowa

Jul 9, 2008, 1:00 PM 31

LatinaLista — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE Department of Homeland Security has a lot of job responsibilities. According to their web site: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland…

Government, Immigration, Palabra Final

Homeland Security ignored Iowa officials’ pleas to postpone Postville raid until criminal investigation of plant management completed

May 19, 2008, 5:44 PM 9

LatinaLista — In Washington, D.C. tomorrow, there will be a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections to discuss the impact of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on children and…

Immigration, Palabra Final

Postville Latino community leaders ask, “What good comes from tearing so many families apart?”

May 13, 2008, 7:28 PM 19

“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. LatinaLista — Yesterday’s Postville raid at the…

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