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Reactions to the Postville raid began immediately, starting with local faith leaders, educators, and lawyers, and spread nationally and internationally to other sectors of civil society, particularly labor unions, civil rights organizations, and the legal community. The impact soon reached Congress, the US Supreme Court, the incoming Obama administration, the Organization of American States, the United Nations, and other international organizations.
I was just following orders.
—Peter von Hagenbach, beheaded in 1474
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Camayd-Freixas, E. (2013). The Script and the Scandal. In: US Immigration Reform and Its Global Impact. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137106780_5
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