Latino help center swamped since raid - Waterloo, Iowa

Hundreds of immigrants have flocked to El Centro Latinoamericana in downtown Waterloo to fill out forms that would designate custody of their children in case there is another raid, but most aren’t asking how to gain U.S. citizenship.

Normally, El Centro serves 10 to 20 clients daily, but workers there are seeing as many as 100 a day since Monday’s raid in Postville. “*

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