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• Grassley, GOP attempt to get in front of White House signals on immigration reform

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  Although it might be difficult to imagine talk of potential health care reform and climate change legislation getting bumped from the nation’s front pages, the foundation for the next partisan cage match is already being built — and Iowa’s own U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is getting in on the ground floor. ...
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• Post Postville, Immigrants Still Vital to Iowa’s Economy

  
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• Agriprocessors bankruptcy comes back to bite some cattle producers

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  Producers who received letter from bankruptcy court urged to contact Iowa Cattlemen’s Association Some Iowa cattle producers that sold livestock to the now-defunct Agriprocessors meatpacking operation in Postville have received an unexpected and unwanted piece of holiday mail from the federal bankruptcy court. ...
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• Rubashkin appeals court-ordered detention

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  Smoldering culture clashes reignite in Postville Defense attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin continue to assert that their client, despite being recently convicted on 86 fraud-related charges, is not a flight risk and should be granted bail pending sentencing. Late last week U.S. District Chief Judge Linda R. Reade ...
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• Dummermuth steps down as U.S. Attorney

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  Saying that the past three years have been “an honor” and “a wonderful privilege,” the man tasked with leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa stepped resigned Tuesday so that the office could be led by Stephanie Rose, an office veteran and career prosecutor who was recently ...
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• ‘Breaking Bread and Barriers’: Storytelling Connects Personal Immigration Experiences with Scripture

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 647
  Here’s a glimpse into what’s happening around the country on immigration reform: I’ve been working with a group of pastors in Decorah, Iowa, to host a “Breaking Bread and Barriers” event in their community. The concept is a potluck dinner with…
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• A federal judge dismissed dozens of immigration charges Thursday against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse, at the request of prosecutors who had already won a conviction on multiple counts of financial fraud. – Postville news

  
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• Judge Denies Rubashkin Bail Bid

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 144
  The Des Moines Register reports :   A federal judge has denied Sholom Rubashkin’s request to be released on bail until he is sentenced on 86 financial fraud convictions. Chief Judge Linda Reade ruled that Rubashkin, the former vice president of Agriprocessors, Inc. poses an escape risk if released. ...
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• Rubashkin will remain behind bars

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  Government asserts that Rubashkin aided flight of Agriprocessors co-worker to Israel U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade has ordered that the Iowa meatpacking manager found guilty on 86 counts of fraud and money laundering will remain behind bars. Sholom M. Rubashkin, who served as the day-to-day ...
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• Feds Dismiss Immigration Charges Against Sholom Rubashkin

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 144
  The Des Moines Register reports : Federal prosecutors dismissed all immigration charges against former Postville [Iowa] meat plant manager Sholom Rubashkin today, one week after a South Dakota jury convicted him of 86 business-fraud charges. The decision spares Rubashkin a second federal trial on 72 ...
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• Immigration-related charges against Rubashkin dismissed

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  The day-to-day manager at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville at the time of a massive May 2008 immigration raid won’t be heading back to court to face 72 counts of immigration-related charges after all. An order released this afternoon by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade dismisses all such charges ...
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• US Attorney nominee receives national scrutiny

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  The Iowa Independent has been tracking the nomination of Stephanie Rose for U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa for months, but now national media outlets have jumped into the act. The New York Times reported Sunday that Rose’s confirmation has been the subject of growing controversy: ...
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• U.S. Attorney Nominee Criticized Over Agriprocessors Raids

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 144
  The New York Times reports :  Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. ...
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• In Our Community: Immigration News

  
  Immigration: It's Our Community — Authority: 121
  Its been a busy week for immigration news! Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and take a look at the news on immigration from Monday, November 9 to Monday, November 16. First, and most importantly, Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday that the Obama administration ...
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• First Rubashkin trial ends with 86 guilty verdicts

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  Sholom M. Rubashkin A jury in Sioux Falls, S.D., returned to the courtroom late Thursday afternoon and delivered judgment on former Agriprocessors manager Sholom M. Rubashkin: Guilty on 86 of 91 possible counts. Rubashkin, who is the 50-year-old son of company founder and president A. Aaron Rubashkin, was convicted ...
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• Postville Raid: Eighteen months have passed since immigration agents raided Agriprocessors Inc. meat plant, arrested nearly 400 workers, and sent the plant spiraling into bankruptcy. – On Thursday, the plant’s former vice president – Sholom Rubashkin – wa

  
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• Sholom Rubashkin Convicted of 86 Federal Charges in Fraud Scheme Involving Postville, Iowa, Kosher Meat Plant

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 144
  The Des Moines Register reports :  Sioux Falls, S.D. ­ A jury has convicted Sholom Rubashkin of 86 federal charges for his part in a massive fraud scheme at his former meat plant, Agriprocessors Inc., in Postville. Jurors declared Rubashkin guilty of bank fraud, making false statements to a bank, wire fraud, mail ...
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• Iowas U.S. attorney nominees move to Senate floor

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Iowans Nick Klinefeldt and Stephanie Rose were among three U.S. attorney nominees the Senate Judiciary Committee approved today by unanimous consent, the Main Justice blog reported . Their nominations still need to be confirmed by the full Senate, ...
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• Southern justice organization slams Rose’s U.S. attorney nomination

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 621
  Stephanie Rose A social justice organization that has primarily been active in Louisiana and Texas has taken a stand against the woman nominated to be the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa . Friends of Justice , a nonprofit organized in the wake of a 1999 Tulia drug sting in Texas, issued a ...
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• We should stay away from immigration enforcement – so says the police

  
  Restore Fairness Blog — Authority: 120
  In a startling expose on Sheriff Arpaio of Maricopa County , under investigation by the Justice Department over mounting complaints of discrimination in his enforcement of immigration laws, Phoenix’s KPHO-Channel 5 reveals a sinister pattern of how Arpaio has used his powers to intimidate and harass his critics ...
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