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By Tom Saul | Thursday, May 22, 2008 | 40 comment(s)

With rumors flying and fears that last week’s immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, may be only the start of more of the same, the Hispanic community in the Quad-Cities is gearing up to protect itself.

Last Sunday, after the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Davenport, church deacon Julian Gutierrez passed out literature telling the parish’s largely Hispanic congregation what their rights are if they should face questioning by federal authorities about their immigration status.

Olga Sanchez of Moline is helping to organize a similar distribution effort as the Mexican Consulate visits Rock Island County in early June to allow Mexican nationals to apply for passports and identification documents.

And Quad-Cities Interfaith has been lining up attorneys and interpreters and urging undocumented immigrants to fill out forms naming a lawyer to represent them in the event that a similar raid takes place in the region.

All of the action comes in the wake of the largest workplace immigration raid in Iowa’s history at a kosher livestock slaughtering operation in Postville on May 12.

“I was on the radio after the raid, and I got 125 calls,â€

Voted. I picked "Deport them immediately."

Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?

Deport them immediately (1441 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time (223 Votes, 10%)
Leave them alone (117 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens (351 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion (48 Votes, 2%)

Poll Results
Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?
Deport them immediately (1442 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time (224 Votes, 10%)
Leave them alone (117 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens (351 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion (48 Votes, 2%)

Love the great avatar jimpasz! Very fitting in this forum.

Originally Posted by jimpasz

Poll Results
Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?
Deport them immediately (1442 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time (224 Votes, 10%)
Leave them alone (117 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens (351 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion (48 Votes, 2%)

Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?
Deport them immediately
(1449 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time
(227 Votes, 10%)
Leave them alone
(118 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens
(354 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion
(48 Votes, 2%)

Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?
Deport them immediately (1450 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time (228 Votes, 10%)
Leave them alone (118 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens (355 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion (48 Votes, 2%)

Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?
Deport them immediately (1462 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time (231 Votes, 10%)
Leave them alone (118 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens (356 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion (48 Votes, 2%)

Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?

Deport them immediately (1467 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time (231 Votes, 10%)
Leave them alone (118 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens (356 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion (48 Votes, 2%)

Poll Results
Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?
Deport them immediately
(1512 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time
(241 Votes, 11%)
Leave them alone
(120 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens
(361 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion
(48 Votes, 2%)

Federal agents arrested 390 alleged illegal immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the largest of its kind in U.S. history. What do you think should be done with illegal immigrants who are working in the U.S.?
Deport them immediately (1516 Votes, 66%)
Deport them after serving time (242 Votes, 11%)
Leave them alone (121 Votes, 5%)
Let them become citizens (362 Votes, 16%)
I have no opinion (48 Votes, 2%)

I was torn between deport immediately (which I chose) and deport after serving time (which would deter them from coming back, but also costs taxpayers a lot of money).