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Update, Affects of Postville Immigration Raid Posted 8 July 2008 Following the federal immigration raid at Postville's Agriprocessors plant May 12, 304 of the arrested immigrants are currently serving jail time instead of being deported. In a surprise action, many of those arrested were sentenced to spend five months in jail before being sent home. The affect of having over 400 residents exit the Postville community is beginning to show in the town's business district. Most business owners are reporting diminishing sales. Those businesses who catered specifically to the Hispanic community are the hardest hit. Many expect they may have to close their doors for good in the coming weeks. Changes at the Agriprocessor meatpacking plant has contributed to a shortage and limited availability of kosher meat across the nation. Rising fuel prices has also only made the problem worse for meat distributors. Two Agriprocessors Inc. supervisors, Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 35, and Martin De La Rosa-Loera, 43, arrested last week will remain in federal custody until their trials. The men were charged with aiding and abetting illegal workers at the plant to possess and use fraudulent identity documents. They were both upper level supervisors at the plant.

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