Thread: Postville police deal with new replacement workers

Postville police deal with new replacement workers
Associated Press
1:52 PM CDT, September 7, 2008

POSTVILLE, Iowa - Postville's police chief says he's trying to add another officer to his staff as crime has risen in the city after an Immigration raid in May.

The Agriprocessors meatpacking plant was raided May 12, when 389 people were charged with being in the country illegally. Most were also charged criminally.

Postville Police Chief Michael Halse says the workers who have come to replace those picked up in the raid are temporary. He says he doesn't know their backgrounds or where they came from.

Halse says he hopes life will return to the way it was before the raid, but predicted that normalcy could be years away.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi- ... 8338.story

Aren't most of the new hires Somalis that were recruited by AgriProcessors (or a contract firm they used to find them new cheap slave labor). Why doesn't this article written above mention any of that???

Postville Police Chief Michael Halse says the workers who have come to replace those picked up in the raid are temporary. He says he doesn't know their backgrounds or where they came from.

Halse says he hopes life will return to the way it was before the raid, but predicted that normalcy could be years away.

I don't know if normal life will ever return as long as they spend all the effort into catering to illegals and immigrants and throw the citizens aside.

Do you think the in crime could be the IAs that lost income from no
familiy members working at the plant?

Originally Posted by zeezil

Aren't most of the new hires Somalis that were recruited by AgriProcessors (or a contract firm they used to find them new cheap slave labor). Why doesn't this article written above mention any of that???

If I recall correctly, that is exactly what an article posted here within the last few days said. With the particular group of foreign workers they are importing now, no green card is needed.

Originally Posted by cayla99

Originally Posted by zeezil

Aren't most of the new hires Somalis that were recruited by AgriProcessors (or a contract firm they used to find them new cheap slave labor). Why doesn't this article written above mention any of that???

If I recall correctly, that is exactly what an article posted here within the last few days said. With the particular group of foreign workers they are importing now, no green card is needed.

Yes, I read that too. These are citizens of a tiny island that is a US Territory -- like Puerto Rico. I can't remember though what country that was. American Samoa?