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Iowa's top online-only news outletPostville Aftermath: 302 Detainees Charged Criminally, 297 Plead Guilty
Started by CIM Network · 10 months ago
76 Percent of Those Detained in Nation’s Largest Criminal Immigration Operation Already Convicted of Criminal Wrongdoing
Ten days ago federal authorities surrounded Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, and took 389 workers into custody on possible immigration vi ... Continue reading »
Ten days ago federal authorities surrounded Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, and took 389 workers into custody on possible immigration vi ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
The practice of facilitating "documentation" has been, from the beginning, a routine part of Agriprocessors's acquisition of (grossly underpaid) labor for the slaughterhouse floor. The practice has obviously continued unabated for many years now, clearly with a tacit awareness at all levels of Iowa state government, as the plant grew to its present size to include Mexicans and Guatemalans as well as the Russians and Eastern Europeans who have been brought in since the plant was established in the late-1980's.
Postville is an egregious instance of negligent governmental oversight allowing a corporate employer to prey on undocumented workers who are ultimately pawned in a high-visibility raid by ICE agents as convenience dictates. Agriprocessors lost one day of production on the killing floor. Assurances by DOL officials that detainees will receive (sub-minimum wage) back-pay owed them by the plant before they are deported are laughable.
Stephen Bloom's "Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America" was published and widely reviewed over seven years ago. He was interviewed on this site on 5/13. Go back and read the book.