Postville News

For weeks now we have watched the evidence of multiple labor-law abuses seeping out of the aftermath of the Postville raid.

DES MOINES, Iowa - A kosher meatpacking company accused of violating Iowa child labor laws denied knowingly hiring any minors and said Wednesday that the government's allegations are "inflammatory." State ...

Participants in the Interfaith Prayer Walk march on the streets of Postville, Iowa, last Sunday.

AN INVESTIGATION BY THE IOWA LABOR COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE HAS UNCOVERED DOZEN OF CHILD LABOR VIOLATIONS AT A KOSHER MEATPACKING PLANT IN POSTVILLE.

State labor officials said Tuesday they found 57 cases of "egregious" child labor violations at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville after a months-long investigation.

FREIXAS is a professor of modern languages at Florida International University. * August 5, 2008 Arbitrariness, abuse of power, lack of due process and coercion are tactics of authoritarian regimes.

' Immigration reform is on the minds of Ernesto Bustos and Brian Sanburn. But the two are on opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to immigration policy in the United States.

The bearded, fedora-wearing strangers from Brooklyn quickly transformed Postville into its own small-town melting pot.

An immigration rally has kicked off in Postville with protesters shouting "Si se puede," translated in English as "yes, we can." Hundreds of people marched through the small Iowa town of about 2,200 on Sunday.

"For a tiny town of 2000, Postville, Iowa has been tagged with a lot of superlatives lately.

This week, I saw two images of Our Lady of Guadalupe. One, a giant mosaic in the front of the giant Shrine Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where people stand in awe.

Julie Santos leads a group of children in songs and chants during the Interfaith Prayer Walk in Postville, Iowa, in response to the immigration raid at the Agriprocessors Inc.

To show their support for illegal aliens and Agriprocessor Inc - a Jewish owned business in Postville, Iowa - The Twin Cities Jewish community loaded up 3 buses full of people to head to a rally for illegal ...

August 2, 2008-- The U.S. attorneys office and a federal judge are defending the use of documents, including scripts, that were given to attorneys as well as workers arrested in an immigration raid at an Iowa ...

Jake and MJ of the Freedom Folks went to Postville to cover the rally there over the weekend.

Postville, Ia. - More than 1,000 people from around the Midwest converged on this small town Sunday to show disdain for the treatment of immigrant workers arrested during a massive raid here in May.

Editor's Note: The Iowa immigration raids were nothing short of a clear violation of the values enshrined in the Bill of Rights, according to members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Conservative Jewish leaders are seeking to protect workers and the environment at kosher food plants such as the one raided by federal agents this spring in Iowa.

A report Wednesday indicating a marked decline in the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. fueled a widening national debate over the Bush administration's policy of immigration enforcement through ...

The ACLU is raising questions about a packet of documents given to attorneys for workers who were arrested during an immigration raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant.