U.S. Citizenship on Horizon for Former Meatpacking Plant Worker
Catholic News Service article from Apr. 30, 2009: Elmer Herrera was detained, but not detained in the same way other immigrant residents of Postville were a year ago.
Catholic News Service article from Apr. 30, 2009: Elmer Herrera was detained, but not detained in the same way other immigrant residents of Postville were a year ago.
Catholic News Service article from May 12, 2009: A year ago a dramatic workplace immigration raid turned the town of Postville on its head, with the arrest of 389 immigrant workers, straining resources and closing businesses around town.
Catholic News Service article from Aug. 1, 2008: Inside a Catholic church in northeast Iowa July 27, a rabbi from Chicago pondered the symbolism of the Statue of Liberty at a gathering of 500 people of various faiths.
Catholic News Service article from Jul. 30, 2008: The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement had to know she was stepping in front of a potentially challenging audience when she agreed to speak to the 2008 National Migration Conference.
Catholic News Service article from May 1, 2009: Reverberations from the immigration raid in Postville last May are still being felt in the town and throughout the Archdiocese of Dubuque, of which Postville is a part.
Dubuque Archbishop Jerome Hanus will celebrate Mass in English and Spanish at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Bridget Catholic Church in Postville.
Catholic News Service article from May 1, 2009: When Father Paul Ouderkirk assumed the pastorate of St. Bridget Parish in Postville in 2000, he estimated the town's population at 2,000. Within a year, he said, it had grown to 2,500.
Prayers and songs were raised in Spanish and English. Scripture readings advised on the proper treatment of immigrants and prisoners.
Officials with the National Cattle Congress may have been misled by the federal government with regards to the use of their facilities.
Catholic News Service article from Jul. 30, 2008: Father Richard Gaul, from St. Bridget's Parish in Postville, Iowa, said that in the more than two months since the largest single-business immigration raid in history hit their town.