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Twin Cities Jews join the battle

http://www.startribune.com/local/25971899.html?location_refer=opinion

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More than 1,000 people, including at least 150 from the Twin Cities, descended Sunday on Postville, a seemingly bucolic place beset by turmoil in the wake of the nation's largest immigration raid in May.

Most had come to support the hundreds of Guatemalans and Mexicans working illegally at Agriprocessors Inc. who were rounded up, jailed or deported as a result of the raid.

Twin Cities Jews say supporting the workers is important because they were mistreated while supplying U.S. Jews with kosher meat. There have been accusations that workers were abused and underpaid.

"For thousands of years, Jews lived by two rules: Welcome the strangers and don't exploit the worker,'" said Vic Rosenthal, executive director of Jewish Community Action, based in St. Paul.