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Postville Update

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

For those of you who attended the Postville immigration conference last month or who are just keeping track of ICE's shenanigans, here is an update on the town of Postville. From CNN, the Postville mayor reports that "Feds Turned My Town 'Topsy Turvey'":"It makes a person feel kind of angry," Penrod says. "It's been nothing but a freaky nightmare since May."Five months later, tensions are high. Crime is up. Businesses are hurting. The nation's kosher supply has taken a big hit because the plant is only functioning at partial capacity. The plant is owned by Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, a powerful member of the Hasidic Jewish community. There's a seething anger toward Immigration and Customs Enforcement."To me, they took a problem that needed a 22-caliber bullet and they dropped a nuclear bomb on us," says Aaron Goldsmith, a Hasidic Jew and former Postville city councilman...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).