Postville (Iowa) Immigration Rally - July 27, 2008

[CornField]

Run time: 06:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I09wQ1AdPQ   Posted on YouTube: July 29, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: July 29, 2008 By DU Member: CornField Views on DU: 521

 
Video I shot and edited that shows both sides of the immigration debate as they gathered in Postville on Sunday.

Postville's largest employer is Agriprocessors.
Agriprocesors, the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the nation, was the site of a May 12 immigration raid -- the largest single-site raid in U.S. history.

A total of 389 people -- mostly from Guatemala and Mexico -- were detained. The vast majority of those detained were charged criminally and convicted to prison terms within days.

[rurallib]

1. Thanks for the video, Cornfield

Makes me sad to see such hateful people in Iowa.

[melissinha]

2. thanks Cornfield

I have been wondering about the situation in Postville as it is a neighboring town to my hometown...


What I really think the anti-immigration people are so short-sighted about is that since that raid, the town was devastated financially by the lack of business due to many of their people being gone... I am ashamed of "I AM and American" people that converged upon Postville... to them I say... weren't your grandparents or great-grandparents immigrants? Why should they have the right to come here when people now are not welcome??? They don't really know what it really is to be an American... if they were worried about jobs and the like, they should protest the businesses who make millions off the backs of immigrants' low wages and who lay off naturally born citizens.... we're all people..

[CornField]

3. Which town?

I've met so many people lately that were originally from West Union or Monona. It's really been eye-opening and a little shocking.