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…

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.

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.

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.

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…

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: Court proceedings against approximately 390 people detained in the largest immigration raid of its type are scheduled to begin this afternoon. Agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

Newspaper article from May 13, 2008, Courier: More than 150 people marched Monday night in a peaceful but raucous protest outside of National Cattle Congress. For two hours, demonstrators marched, chanted and waved flags along the sidewalk that runs…

Newspaper article from May 12, 2008, Courier: Beverly Ayala, co-owner of La Chiquita in downtown Waterloo, has been passing out copies of the Miranda rights statement in Spanish to members of the Latino community.

Newspaper article from May 13, 2008, Courier: It all happened so quickly, yet many believed all along that what federal officials were doing at National Cattle Congress for the past week was preparing for exactly what took place.