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Comprehensive News Feed for Postville, IA.
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Nineteen months after the infamous Postville raid plucked 389 immigrant workers from their jobs at Agriprocessors meat-packing plant, about four dozen will spend their second Christmas here, in limbo. Comment?
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Ex-official at meatpacking plant seeks term revision
... he received for his part in hiring illegal immigrants to work at the plant. Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza of Postville, who worked at the former Agriprocessors Inc. plant, is serving 36 months in prison, and two years of the sentence is the ... Comment?
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Enter U.S. legally to avoid problems
Regarding the Dec. 6 Register article about the Postville immigrants: I found it telling that the word 'illegal,' with reference to the immigrants, was not mentioned until the 15th paragraph in the article. Comment?
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UI professor shares the adventures behind pearls
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... talk for hours about pearls." In his latest non-fiction outing, the author of well-received books about Iowa towns Postville and Oxford traveled the world to trace the story of a pearl. Bloom set out to interview every person who touches the gem ... Comment?
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Local news, weather, sports & information
... in damages. Spilde was cited for not having a valid drivers license. At 3:00 p.m. 75-year-old Beverly Bacon of Postville pulled out from East Main Street onto Montgomery Street, into the path of 24-year-old Evan Hageman of Decorah, causing $4,500 in ... Comment?
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Immigrants ordered held to testify at trial
... 19 trial on immigration and document fraud. The attorneys' motion has been approved. The Agriprocessors plant in Postville was the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008. Comment?
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Illegal workers held for slaughterhouse trial
... be held in the U.S. to testify in his Jan. 19 trial on immigration and document fraud. The Agriprocessors plant in Postville was the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008. Comment?
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Twenty illegal immigrants set to be released as...
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... be held in the U.S. to testify in his Jan. 19 trial on immigration and document fraud. The Agriprocessors plant in Postville was the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008. Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material ... 3 comments
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... absence of fear of humans certainly contributed to their demise. Ellison Orr, a Waukon naturalist who grew up near Postville in the 1860's and 70's, described several ways that the pigeons were hunted. A common means was to shoot the birds in their ... Comment?
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Trafficking victims often deported
... deported most of the nearly 390 workers arrested after an immigration raid last year at a meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. One worker at the plant, Mardoqueo Valle-Callejas, told the Star he came to the U.S. illegally to earn money for his ... Comment?
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Report: Agencies deport, don't ask about trafficking
... deported most of the nearly 390 workers arrested after an immigration raid last year at a meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. One worker at the plant, Mardoqueo Valle-Callejas, told the Star he came to the U.S. illegally to earn money for his ... Comment?
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Newspaper: Trafficking victims often deported
... were deported. Those include some workers picked up in an immigration raid last year at a meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. The newspaper also reports some deportees have been sedated or abused on 1 of 2 Kansas City-based government airlines ... Comment?
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Star Shots | Police chase wreck, U.S. Bank CEO Mark Jorgenson, Rocket launch in Iran
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... a break in the fence provided an easy entry point. 10272009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star Buy image now Former Postville, Iowa, worker Luis Alberto Diaz Cujcuj (right) talked about being chained on his deportation flight. With Cujcuj were ... Comment?
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Local news, weather, sports & information
... nce in Decorah, a 1:30 p.m. appearance at Gus and Tony's Pizza and Steakhouse in Waukon, a 3:15 p.m. appearance in Postville and a 5:30 p.m. appearance in Charles City. DECORAHNEWS.COM - DECORAH NEWS NOW! Sponsors (Click To Open) Comment?
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Trafficking victims are often deported without being screened
... deported most of the nearly 390 workers arrested after an immigration raid last year at a meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. One worker at the plant, Mardoqueo Valle-Callejas, told the Star he came to the U.S. illegally to earn money for his ... Comment?
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Convicted Agriprocessors supervisor requests revisit of sentence
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The first Agriprocessors supervisor sentenced following a massive immigration raid at the Postville meatpacking plant is requesting the court review his sentence on a belief that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling will mitigate it. Comment?
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Kosher plant supervisor wants sentence corrected
Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, of Postville, is serving 36 months in prison, and two years of the sentence is the mandatory for aggravated identify theft. Comment?
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Ask questions later | Victims are too often deported
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... what happened to Mardoqueo Valle-Callejas and many of the 388 workers swept up in a workplace raid last year at a Postville, Iowa, meat processing plant. The Guatemalan father of five came to America illegally to earn money for his family. ... Comment?
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Agriprocessors supervisor asks court to correct his sentence
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... 2008 filed a motion Monday in U.S. District Court to correct his sentence. Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 36, of Postville, is serving 36 months in prison and two years of the sentence is the mandatory sentence for aggravated identity theft, as ... Comment?
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Postville FCCLA students help children have a happy holiday
... selectingA three projects for publication in the newspaper. The following is one of the nominations we received. Postville High School's chapterA ofA FCCLA (Families, Career, Community Leaders of America) sponsored Operation Shoebox this holiday ... Comment?
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