Alyson Kennedy meets with Iowa immigrants

Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers candidate for Vice President recently met with immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the site of a recent ICE raid that arrested 389 abattoir workers (about 17% of the town’s population). The current issue of the SWP’s The Militant says:

Outside St. Bridget’s Catholic Church, Kennedy talked to an Agriprocessors worker who had been detained and later released by the government. This worker, who asked that the Militant not print her name out of fear of retaliation, said she knew of 49 women and 3 or 4 male workers who were released but are forced to wear ankle bracelets. Kennedy said the socialist campaign favors legalization for all immigrants without conditions.

As seems to be the SWP ticket’s style, Kennedy spoke for change coming from the grassroots:

“People like you are leading the way forward,” said Kennedy. “We can win if we keep fighting to build a movement that demands legalization. There were a good number of people who’ve lived their whole lives in Iowa who joined the protest. There was unity there that we can build on. More and more are seeing the raids as attacks on all of us.”