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.
Newspaper article from May 13, 2008, Courier: State officials are working to help Postville residents deal with the fallout of a raid by federal immigration officials Monday on kosher meatpacker Agriprocessors Inc.
Virginia Gibbs, Professor of Spanish, Luther College, Luz María Ramírez Ede, Instructor Luther College will discuss their current book in process, Voices from Postville. This presentation was part of the conference Postville: Past, Present and…
Panelists Mark Grey, Michele Devlin, and Aaron Goldsmith discuss the recent history of Postville, Iowa, including a brief history and background, its unusual diversity in a small town, and the large Federal immigration raid in 2008. This…
Speakers Miryam Antúnez de Mayolo and Mark Grey and moderator Quentin Hart discuss the basics of immigration in the United States and Iowa. This is the first in a series of four community forums on immigration, called Moving Beyond What I Think I…