Prayer service supports immigrants from Agriprocessors

About 70 parishioners gathered at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday, May 22, 2008, to stand in solidarity with the suspected undocumented immigrants arrested in the raid of the Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, on May 12. GazetteOnline video by Richard Pratt.

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[BadgemanDFW]

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

[Rikiru]

Immigration? The company simply replace 400~ hard working people with people whose religion directly antagonizes Judaism. Agriprocessor will soon be out of business, who would trust "KOSHER" food made my Muslim Somalis?

[thecoldhardtruth]

In John 10:1, Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber."

[bapagan]

When you sneak into a country illegally, you know you're risking much...even being deported from your family if you're caught. Illegal workers in this country are creating the conditions they work and live under. I'm not saying I condone what their employers do, but I think it's pretty ballsy for someone who's in this country illegally to blame the government for upholding our nation's laws.

[niarwan2007]

Hmm, Christians vs Jews ?

[oldrebel]

You are half right, human dignity of poor American citizens is very important. That is why when illegals steal their jobs, it is devastating to them. And you are half right again, we are improved by controlled immigration, not by millions of illegal aliens. Help illegals improve their own country.

[destroyapathy]

Hehe..oh, how could I ever fail to see things from your point of view? I'm so sorry for believing that human dignity is always more important than the nation in which an individual just happens to be born. And actually, this country is improved by immigrants, not destroyed. Thanks for the great conversation, I respect your opinion.

[oldrebel]

Sorry, that's not working anymore. No starving families are coming from south of the border. Their better life is nothing more then material things. And your name also serves you well. 'Destroy'ing this country is obviously your goal. Think of American poor citizens first. If you want to help illegals, take them home and help them change their country.  It is not the American peoples fault for free trade agreements. So don't punish them with millions of illegals.

[destroyapathy]

Dare I say that a large portion of people who immigrate to the USA are trying to provide for their families, and if it were possible to feed their families within their countries, they wouldn't come here trying to make ends meat. Our Free Trade Agreements that we impose upon other countries are partially to blame for the poverty that Latin American countries suffer from now! Well, I guess your name serves you well-old rebel...you'll never open your mind.

[oldrebel]

That is true, anchor babies as they are called. Like I said, child abuse for using their children as a means to come & stay in this country. Trying to play on sympathy. If one parent is legal, they have the choice of staying here with the child, or going back as a family together. You are the one making it complex. We have laws, and if they break them, then they have a choice to make. If it were you, wouldn't you want your family back home with you?