Parkersburg, have you taken a look at the meatpacking and poultry packing plants in Iowa? This has to be some of the most disgusting and filthy jobs you can imagine. The meat and poultry packers (wealthy and Republican) are actually recruiting for laborers in Latin America to work in Iowa. The largest Kosher meat packing plant in the US was raided by ICE and over 450 illegals were captured and deported. This was Postville, Iowa. The owners of the Kosher plant were convicted of supplying stolen Social Security cards to these people. The plant was closed down. Postville is now dried up and is blowing away in the Iowa wind. No industry means no workers and therefore no economy. You can buy a nice house in Postville for under $35,000 but no one will move there.

Plenty of unemployment in Iowa among the youths. They would rather manufacture, sell, and use meth than work in a slaughterhouse.

Can you say that having the illegal immigrants in Postville was good because it improved the local and state economy (these people paid Social Security tax through the stolen cards and would never get benefits) - or would say it is bad because out-of-work Iowans were not working at the slaughterhouses for minimum wage? How about if Iowans were working there for minimum wage, uunionized, and demanded $32 per hour plus health insurance? Would you be willing to pay $28 per pound for Iowa chops - as delicious as they really are?

What do you propose for a solution?