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...illustrate the human toll of the immigration debate, New York Times reporter Julia Preston described devastating raids on meatpacking plants in Marshalltown, Iowa that ended with the deportation of hundreds of workers back to Mexico. Preston, who is the national immigration correspondent for The Times, spoke yesterday afternoon about policy concerns with illegal immigration and its social impact as part of “¡México Hoy!”, a David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies series on U.S.-Mexico relations. Titled “Where There Are Mexicans, There Is Mexico: Mexican Immigrants...
...state's official language. A Des Moines Register poll last year found that 58% of those surveyed oppose Vilsack's plan to bring in more immigrants. "Do we really want to be another California, with all of its immigrant problems?" says Roger Harrison, 68, a retired lawyer from Marshalltown. Given such opposition, Vilsack's move is risky for the first-term Governor, the first Democrat to lead the state in 30 years. But Vilsack, whose approval rating is 65%, says he has little choice. Young people have been fleeing since the farm crisis of the mid-'80s, and there aren...
...that part of Vilsack's plan has run into a prairie fire of opposition. Part of it is prejudice. But that's not the whole story. Iowans have reason to be leery because of unplanned immigration in the mid-'90s, when thousands of Hispanics came to Iowa communities like Marshalltown to work in meat-packing plants. Marshalltown (pop. 26,000) became 12% Hispanic overnight. The monocultural town was totally unprepared. Schools struggled to cope with non-English speakers. A methamphetamine industry sprang up, which police blamed on Mexican gangs. Most of the new arrivals, like Gilberto Ortega, 36, from...
...native Iowans resented new arrivals who didn't assimilate. A group of vets pushed through an English-only resolution. "The tension came because the change was so rapid," says Ken Anderson, president of the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce. Vilsack hopes to avoid repeating past mistakes by taking things slowly...
...percent of your poll respondents think cloning is acceptable to create genetically superior humans. I don't want those people reproducing at all. JANICE LINDGREN Marshalltown, Iowa...