I arrived in NY from Sweden last night and found that Tony Leys had published an article in the Des Moines Register titled Postville documentary criticizes sentencings which began thus: A federal judge who participated in controversial court hearings after the huge immigration raid in Postville says the 2008 legal proceedings were "a travesty." Here is the link:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110206/NEWS/102060342/Postville-
documentary-criticizes-sentencings-
By the time I landed in Waterloo, IA airport at noon today, the article had been picked up by the AP wire and even CNBC carried it:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41459288
This may not be a prairie fire in February, but it helps warm things up.
Presents the devastating effects of US Enforcement Immigration policies on communities, families and children. The film tells the gripping personal stories of the individuals, the families and the town that survived the most brutal, most expensive and largest immigration raid in the history of the United States and serves as a cautionary tale of government abuses.