ICE and DHS Making Detention Center in Iowa?


	ICE and DHS Making Detention Center in Iowa?

blueridge

5-12-2008 10:00 PM

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5-12-2008 10:43 PM

ratilfar

And some people are still waiting for the walls and the razor wire and think that guns will keep them safe or free. The other side also has guns, tanks and the keys to the jail cells.

5-13-2008 5:23 AM

blueridge

Actually this was a leak prior to a raid on illegal immigrants which necessitated major holding facilities.

Up to 700 arrests estimated in Postville ICE raid

12 May 2008 (IA) Four Homeland Security buses with U.S. Immigration and Customs tags on them have entered the Agriprocessors Inc. complex. The buses, along with a trail of SUVs and vans with Minnesota license plates, arrived at about 11:45 a.m. Tim Counts, a Midwest ICE spokesman, declined to confirm where people who are arrested will be detained. Federal officials have leased the National Cattle Congress fairgrounds in Water...

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