{"id":370,"date":"2007-03-07T18:06:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/03\/07\/marshalltown-immigration-summit\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:14:45","slug":"marshalltown-immigration-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/marshalltown-immigration-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshalltown Immigration Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"marshalltown\"<\/a>A national summit on immigration intended for the community of Marshalltown, Iowa was held on Feb. 26 and was a big disappointment to some.The event included INS officials, local school district members, and Rep. Tom Lehman, R-Iowa.Gilbert Sierra, the Iowa state director of LULAC attended and said that about twenty people who showed up really needed the information. The rest were the media, staff and community leaders. About 160 people tops, he said showed up to the event.During a question and answer session, the public was asked to write questions on a sheet of paper and the moderator would pick the questions
\n that would be answered. At times, the panel was not able to answer the questions that they were presented.\u201cOne question came up,\u201d Sierra said, \u201cabout getting an IRS number [ITIN number] and it was a very hard question. Nobody knew about it, so I raised my hand. I answered with the free IRS paper that they gave out at the Moline conference.\u201d
\nThe conference was more to justify the positions of those against immigration and to present that they are not racist according to Mr. Sierra.
\n\u201cThe mission of the conference was that they wanted to say something to not think that they were racist,\u201d Sierra said.
\nAbout the only positive thing mentioned about the immigrants was that the mayor of Marshalltown, Gene Beach said, \u201cWe have the best Mexican food in Iowa.\u201d
\nSchool board officials believed that the education system was not a top priority in Mexico. However on a positive note, the school officials said that without immigrants, they would not have as much money to pay for the schools.
\n\u201cIn my opinion, the event was not backed up by facts,\u201d Gilbert Sierra of LULAC said.
\nThe families most affected with the December raids of a food processing plant in Marshalltown did not attend the event. The minutemen were present at the event but were escorted out after the first session.
\nAs a Latino leader in the community, Sierra was disappointed that he was not allowed to speak in the conference.
\n\u201cI just hope that I get a call in Marshalltown to go back. I\u2019m going to tell them the truth. They left many misrepresentations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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