Former Iowa meat plant supervisor sentenced to nearly 2 years for harboring illegal immigrants

Last update: March 4, 2009 - 5:18 PM

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A supervisor arrested after a massive immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa has been sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison for harboring illegal immigrants.

Martin De La Rosa-Loera was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids to 23 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release.

The 43-year-old Postville man pleaded guilty last year to aiding and abetting the harboring of undocumented immigrants under an agreement with prosecutors.

He was arrested in July following an immigration raid that netted 389 people at the Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville.

Other company managers also face federal charges.


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