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…

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…

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.

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.

Jennifer Cooley, Sandra Rybachek, and actresses Elena Dobrila, Magda Caicedo, Yulia Vorobyeva, Ellen Nuss, and Alma de Pérez present excerpts from a play, a work-in-progress, based on testimonials from Guatemalan women in Postville and their…

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.