Hundreds rally for immigrants

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Source: Chicago Tribune


Religious leaders join meatpacker protest in Iowa

By Julia Preston | New York Times News Service
1:14 AM CDT, July 28, 2008

POSTVILLE, Iowa — About 1,000 people, including Hispanic immigrants, Roman Catholic clergy members, rabbis and activists, marched through the center of this farm town Sunday and held a rally at the entrance to a kosher meatpacking plant that was raided in May by Immigration authorities.

The march was called to protest working conditions in the plant, Agriprocessors Inc., and to call for congressional legislation to give legal status to illegal immigrants. Protesters, many arriving by bus from the Twin Cities and Chicago, circled the streets of Postville on a route about a mile long. Some clutched banners and signs such as one that read, "United for immigrant and worker rights."

The rabbis, four from Minnesota and Wisconsin, also attended the march to publicize proposals to revise kosher food certification to include standards of corporate ethics and treatment of workers.

The march drew a counterprotest by about 150 people, organized by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which opposes illegal immigrants and proposals to give them legal status.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-immigration-protestjul28,0,6708196.story

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1. a small voice for the immigrant community

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2. "United for Immigrant and Worker Rights"

That would be nice to see. But even on a message board like this, lots of people just want to focus on them damned Meskins.