Courier articles
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Courier articles
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A collection of newspaper articles written by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
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Activists worried about immigration raid in Waterloo
Newspaper article from May 11, 2008, Courier: Immigration rights activists are concerned that the federal government may be planning an immigration raid on workers in Waterloo similar to one carried out in Marshalltown in 2006.
Area Hispanics scurry to get paperwork in line
Newspaper article from May 12, 2008, Courier: With a raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials seeming almost inevitable many Hispanics in the Cedar Valley spent Monday getting their paperwork in order.
Immigration raid termed largest in Iowa history
Newspaper article from May 12, 2008, Courier: Immigration officials raided the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville today, arresting as many as 300 people.
Vigil at National Cattle Congress
Newspaper article from May 12, 2008, Courier: A group of 50 or more people are gathered outside the gates of National Cattle Congress tonight in a peaceful vigil on behalf of those people detained at the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in…
Postville detainees include Guatemalans, other nationalities, and some juveniles
Newspaper article from May 13, 2008, Courier: Officials with the U.S. Attorney's office in Cedar Rapids said this morning Monday's raid at Agriprocessors in Postville is the largest enforcement operation at a single site in the United States in terms…
Activists worried about immigration raid in Waterloo
Newspaper article from May 11, 2008, Courier: Immigration rights activists are concerned that the federal government may be planning an immigration raid on workers in Waterloo similar to one carried out in Marshalltown in 2006.
Immigration raid termed largest in Iowa history
Newspaper article from May 12, 2008, Courier: Immigration officials raided the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville today, arresting as many as 300 people.
Area Hispanics scurry to get paperwork in line
Newspaper article from May 12, 2008, Courier: With a raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials seeming almost inevitable many Hispanics in the Cedar Valley spent Monday getting their paperwork in order.
Car registrations, titles included in ICE investigation
Newspaper article from May 13, 2008, Courier: Vehicles with license plates from Des Moines County have caught the eye of federal postal and state transportation authorities. In fact, two of the things immigration agents sought to seize when they…
Culver expresses support for crackdown
Newspaper article from May 13, 2008, Courier: Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has formed a working group of top state officials to help the community of Postville after a raid on its meatpacking plant by federal immigration officials Monday.