A City of Ruins: Postville One Year After

In May 2008, the U.S. government descended upon rural Postville, Iowa to make a statement on its willingness to enforce the immigration laws with a massive workplace raid followed by criminal prosecutions of undocumented workers.  Now — one year later — is an appropriate time to look at the fallout and thinkabout the future.  As Jens Manuel Krogstad of the WCF Courier puts it, he has “been writing obsessively about how Postville looks one year later.”  Click the link above to see how much “good” the 2008 immigration raids have done for Postville, Iowa.

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