Ex-Iowa slaughterhouse manager faces US charges
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — After fleeing to Israel following an immigration raid in 2008, a former manager at a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa finally appeared in a U.S. courtroom Friday to face charges that he conspired to exploit immigrant workers for profit.
Amara pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiring to harbor workers who were in the country illegally and conspiring to provide false immigration papers at what was the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse. He faces 25 counts related to harboring and two counts related to document fraud.
The appearance comes as a coalition of affected immigrants, church leaders, attorneys and other advocates planned to gather outside the same courthouse next week to mark the five-year anniversary of the raid, which was widely condemned as inhumane and a travesty of justice.
The raid devastated Postville, a city of about 2,000 people in northeast Iowa, and tore apart dozens, if not hundreds, of families.
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