Cedar Rapids :: IA :: USA
| 2 days ago
Iowa A federal grand jury in Iowa has returned a 12-count indictment against a kosher slaughterhouse and some of its employees on charges ranging from conspiracy and harboring illegal immigrants to bank fraud. The Agriprocessors plant in Postville was...
Tags: slaughterhouse, immigration, kosher meat, Iowa, homeland security, Sholom Rubashkin, Postville, Judge Jon Scoles, immigration raid, grand jury, meatpacking plant
Postville :: IA :: USA
| 4 days ago
More than six months after the federal immigration raid that threw this town into turmoil, county and city governments are taking steps to provide relief to displaced workers. City clerk Darcy Radleff said today that she and Mayor Robert Penrod will meet...
Tags: immigration, Postville
Mifflintown :: PA :: USA
| 5 days ago
Agriprocessors, out of money to continue operations, is seeking court approval to spend cash already obligated to its bank to meet payroll and other needs. The kosher meat processor temporarily suspended production this week in Postville because of a...
Tags: immigration, kosher meat
Chimaltenango :: Guatemala
| 9 days ago
Postville, Iowa — When Gabriel Calicio was released from prison, five months after being arrested on immigration charges at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, his only possession was the prison-issued blue jumpsuit he was wearing. Calicio, 21,...
Tags: slaughterhouse, immigration
Des Moines :: IA :: USA
| 10 days ago
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials raid the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, Agriprocessors Inc., in Postville, Iowa, and detain nearly 400 illegal immigrants. It was the largest single site operation of its kind in the United States...
Tags: immigration, kosher meat, immigration raided
Seattle :: WA :: USA
| 16 days ago
The spike in deportations reflects the continuing nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration by ICE and other federal agencies. Nationwide, the number of deportations in the period increased from 290,000 to more than 345,000, about a 17 percent increase....
Tags: deportation, immigration, illegal immigrants, immigrants, illegal, crime, illegal immigration, ICE, percent increase, ended sept
Dhāri :: India
| 18 days ago
Department of Immigration for moving swiftly and co-operatively to assess the protection claims of 26 Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers on Christmas Island. Initiatives that include tree-planting proposals, tearing down fences and sending the kids to...
Tags: immigration, asylum, asylum seekers
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia
| 18 days ago
An opposition MP highlighted the plight of Myanmar refugees in Malaysia, claiming that some of them were "sold off" at Malaysia-Thai border by immigration officers to human traffickers during deportation. Klang), said that based on those who have come...
Tags: refugees, immigration, Malaysia-Thai
Postville :: IA :: USA
| 18 days ago
Financially struggling and legally embattled Agriprocessors has sought protection from creditors in bankruptcy court, where it hopes to reorganize and continue operating. In a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition filed Tuesday, Agriprocessors says its financial...
Tags: immigration, slaughterhouse, kosher meat, Kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors, financial difficulties, bankruptcy protection, immigration raid
Boston :: MA :: USA
| 19 days ago
Elected officials hailed a guilty plea by Michael Bianco Inc. and its president as a strong message to employers that the federal government will not tolerate business owners who knowingly hire and harbor illegal immigrants, and said the next step must...
Tags: immigration, Michael Bianco Inc., illegal immigration, New Bedford, Francesco Insolia, pleaded guilty, hire illegal, U.S, conceal illegal
