Saturday, June 09, 2012

Iowa community and religious activists work to protect immigrants

A new campaign is helping Hispanic immigrants to integrate better into their city.    - - Donna Poisl

from Fox News Latino

A group of community and religious leaders in Iowa has collected hundreds of signatures supporting a project seeking to integrate Hispanic families in the region and lessen the marked anti-immigrant tone that prevails in the current political debate in that state.

The campaign, Helping Our Iowa Neighbors, was launched in April during a meeting in Orange City, a rural town of 6,000 residents near Sioux Falls, in a zone that is 7 percent Hispanic.
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