Posted by nebraskaobserver on May 21, 2008
85 sentenced in Postville immigration raid
Associated Press – May 20, 2008 10:44 AM ET
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) – Federal prosecutors say 85 people arrested in last week’s immigration raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville have been sentenced on federal charges.
They are part of a group of nearly 400 people arrested at the Agriprocessors plant.
They pleaded guilty yesterday in Waterloo. The U.S. attorney’s office says it’s the largest number of defendants to plead guilty and be sentenced in one day.
Officials say 77 pleaded guilty to using false identification to obtain employment. They admitted using the ID of an actual person and were sentenced to five months in prison and face deportation.
Eight others pleaded guilty to using a false ID to obtain employment, but those documents did not belong to an actual person. They were sentenced to five years probation and ordered out of the country.
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Posted by nebraskaobserver on May 15, 2008
Some sluthing around found an interesting web blog, “The Problem With the Lubavitch”. It seems that the Chabad Lubavitch, a worldwide Jewish organization headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y. owns the Postville processing plant. The Lubavitch are very quietly anti-Israel and the established Jewish-American community does not recognize them. Without going into a lot of detail, which you can read yourself, they appear to operate with questionable business practices and outright scams to increase their profits. The town of Postville has had a history of conflict around Agriprocessors, Inc, and it’s Postville facility has a history of noncompliance with state and federal regulations related to food safety, pollution and workplace safety.
Posted in Agriprocessors, Identity Theft, Illegal Alien, Illegal Immigration, Iowa, Lubavitch | Tagged: Agriprocessors, chabad, identify theft, IL, Illegal Alien, Illegal Immigration, Iowa, Lubavitch, Postville | 3 Comments »
Posted by nebraskaobserver on May 14, 2008
Postville, Iowa (AHN) – At least 300 people were arrested, mostly over illegal identity theft and illegal immigration, by federal immigration agents in northeastern Iowa at the world’s biggest meat processing plant…..story
Also, see
ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/IA/about/ImmigrationBattle.pdf
http://problemswithlubavitch.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/postville-factory-is-owned-by-the-lubavitch/
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