Focus On...Immigration
Catholic Sisters Sponsor Immigration Billboard
Submitted on: 4/09/2007Contact Person: Tricia Buxton
"Welcome the Immigrant you once were!" campaign in spring 2002 featured billboards and news releases encourging all Iowans to be more accepting of immigrants.....read more
Medal for Equality, Justice Given
Submitted on: 9/19/2009Contact Person: Angie Connolly
Sister Mary McCauley, BVM, former pastoral administrator of three Catholic parishes in Northeast Iowa, who was in the center of the pastoral response to the May 12, 2008, federal immigration raid at Agriprocessors, Inc., received the 2009 Cristine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice from the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women on Saturday, August 29, in Des Moines, Iowa.....read more
Postville: A Translator's Experience
Submitted on: 2/13/2010Contact Person: Sallyann McCarthy
Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas, a federally certified interpreter who translated at federal hearings in Waterloo, Iowa, after the 2008 immigration raid at Agri-Processors, Inc., a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, will speak to audiences throughout eastern Iowa in March.....read more
