The Postville Project

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20080512.Area Hispanics scurry to get paperwork in line.pdf
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.

20080511.Activists worried about immigration raid in Waterloo.pdf
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.

URBAN INSTITUTE ABSTRACT:
This report examines the consequences of parental arrest, detention, and deportation on 190 children in 85 families in six locations, providing in-depth details on parent-child separations, economic hardships, and…

The sign on the edge of Postville that greets visitors and residents.
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