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Iowa City organization obtains bail for seven arrested in Mount Pleasant raid

When founding Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project last year, officials considered another immigration raid in Iowa always was a possibility.The impact of the Postville raid in 2008, after all, still is felt to this day among undocumented workers and members of those communities. But when establishing the aid organization, co-founder Natalia Espina said they believed they would see arrests, at most, of only a few people.And then Mount Pleasant happened.The raid took place in the early morning of May 9, when deportation officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S.

 

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