Immigrants ordered held to testify at trial

associated press • December 19, 2009

Cedar Rapids, Ia. - Twenty illegal immigrants who were going to be released as witnesses in the case against a former kosher slaughterhouse manager will stay in custody because another manager wants them to testify at his trial.

The witnesses were being held to testify in the immigration trial of former Agriprocessors manager Sholom Rubashkin. Rubashkin was convicted on 86 counts of financial fraud last month. Immigration charges against him were dropped.



Attorneys for Brent Beebe, the plant's former operations manager, asked that the witnesses, who worked at the plant, be held in the United States to testify in Beebe's Jan. 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.

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