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Postville police chief: Crime up after raid
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POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) -
Postville's police chief says he's trying to add another officer to
his staff as crime has risen in the city after an immigration raid
in May.
The Agriprocessors meatpacking
plant was raided May 12, when 389 people were charged with being in
the country illegally. Most were also charged criminally.
Postville Police Chief Michael
Halse says the workers who have come to replace those picked up in
the raid are temporary. He says he doesn't know their backgrounds
or where they came from.
Halse says he hopes life will
return to the way it was before the raid, but predicted that
normalcy could be years away.
Posted in News on Sunday, September 7, 2008 12:00 am
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