Elisa Lopez lived in Postville, Iowa, through sixth grade but returned with her family to San Jose Calderas, Guatemala, before the Agriprocessors raid in 2008. In her small highland village she has had no school to attend. In a shed behind the family's home water is heated over an open fire then carried to the house for bathing and washing. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A photographer walking the beach at Puerto San Jose on Guatemala's Pacific coast takes pictures of families and sells instant prints. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Mardoqueo Valle Callejas, seated in the kitchen of his borrowed home in San Jose Calderas, talked about the working conditions in Postville, Iowa. Callejas was deported following the 2008 raid on the meat packing plant. 07192009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Boys line up with their Bibles to attend church in El Rosario, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A woman walking in Patzun, Guatemala, wears hand-embroidered traditional Guatemalan clothing. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Former Postville, Iowa, worker Marvin Perez-Gomez shows off one of his favorite T-shirts that he found in used clothing the family sells from their home in Guatemala. The clothing comes from the United States. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A foot race begins on the cobblestone streets of Antigua, Guatemala. The city was founded in the early 16th century. 07192009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Wood is brought down from the hills for cooking stoves in Guatemala. The use of gas stoves is limited because of the cost. 07192009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Businesses line a street in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala, is nestled into a hillside. Many of the workers at the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant that was raided in 2008, were from El Rosario, nearby San Jose Calderas and surrounding areas. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Migrants at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, listened to an attorney as she informed them of their rights and warned them of the dangers lurking across the border in Mexico as they head north. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A dump burns along the rode to the remote highland village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The highland village of El Rosario is nestled in a hillside. Access is on foot. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Children play marbles in the remote highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. Many of the workers arrested in the 2008 raid on the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, came from El Rosario, nearby San Jose Calderas and surrounding areas. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Grey water drains down an alleyway in Patzun, Guatemala. The lack of a sewer system for homes in the area forces outdoor sinks to drain into the alley. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
At the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, a mural depicts migrants' journey towards the United States from their roots in Central America. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Sausage cures in the open air at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Children play next to the soccer field in San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Helen Yulisa Toj (center), 10, practiced her penmanship in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. Many of the workers at the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant that was raided in 2008, were from El Rosario, nearby San Jose Calderas and surrounding areas. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A boy, with a rope tied around his waist, pulled the makeshift raft upstream as he headed back to the Guatemalan side of the Suchiate River to get another load of migrants heading north. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Tooth brushes hang on a post by the outdoor sink of Luis Alberto Diaz Cujcuj in Patzun, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Mardoqueo Valle Callejas lost his family's home in San Jose Calderas, Guatemala, after being arrested in Postville, Iowa, and deported. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Food, water and juice is given to migrants in the morning at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. 07212009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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A bleak streetscape lies outside the walls of the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. The shelter is on Guatemala's northwestern border with Mexico. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Children play along a street in remote highland village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala 07192009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Migrants, including Lucila Gerrero Campos (foreground) from El Salvador, wash bed linens at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. People staying at the shelter are expected to help with the work before continuing their journeys. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Law student and volunteer Delia Gallegos volunteers at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Former Postville, Iowa, worker Fermin Loyes. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
With little to occupy their time, boys play poker for money along a walkway in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The concrete and stone walkway in the remote highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala, steepens as it nears the top of the home sites. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Frain Lopez Santos uses a machete to tend to his maze (corn) crop in the hills above San Jose Caldares, Guatemala. Santos once worked in Postville, Iowa, but left before the Agriprocessors' raid in 2008. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Three-wheeled taxis, busses, cars and walking help people move about in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Children in the yard of Luis Alberto Diaz Cujcuj play a game of tug-of-war. The Patzun, Guatemala man worked at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa, before being deported. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Guatemalans line up for visas at the U.S. embassy in Guatemala City. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Gritty, volcanic dirt serves as a soccer field for youngsters in San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Maria Asuncion Otzin, mother of a Postville, Iowa, worker Irma Rucal, goes through some of her daughter's things in Irma's sleeping area behind their house in San Miguel Duenas, Guatemala. Rucal obtained an visa and was able to stay in the U.S. following the raid on the Agriprocessors plant in Postville. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
At the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, a mural depicts migrants' journey towards the United States from their roots in Central America. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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A family relaxes behind their home in Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, on the country's Pacific coast. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Heading north, migrants step onto Mexican soil after crossing the Suchiate River from Guatemala on a makeshift raft. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Migrants on their way north walk and swim across the Suchiate River, which separates Guatemala from Mexico. Others nearby pay for a raft ride across the river. The crossing is only a block away from the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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A variety of machetes hang in a shed behind the home of Frain Lopez Santos in San Jose Calderas. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Sabina Mejia de Valle and her daughter, Jaslin Aide Valle Mejia, and the rest of their family lost their home in San Jose Calderas, Guatemala, after de Valle's husband, Mardoqueo Valle Callejas, was deported following the raid on the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A boy in Patzun, Guatemala, plays with drink cans in an alleyway which serves as a drainage path for waste water from outdoor sinks of area homes. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Marco Tulio talked about working long hours in the kosher meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. He spoke from his home in the small village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
On Guatemala's northern border, migrants cross the Suchiate River heading north while goods go back south into Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Marvin Perez-Gomez was deported following the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant raid in 2008. Back in Guatemala his family helps make ends meet by selling used clothing from their home. He is holding his daughter, Andrea, 4. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Teenager Jimmy Marroquin sits in his bedroom in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. Marroquin was an underage worker at the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, before being deported. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
After crossing the Suchiate River on Guatemala's northern border, migrants head north into Mexico as their young boatman prepares to return on his makeshift raft. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The home of Maria Asuncion Otzin and her husband, Eulogio Hernandez, in San Miguel Duenas, Guatemala, was cobbled together using local materials. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Smoke from food vendors fills the park square in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A woman was weighed down with cans and bottles collected along the beach at Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A street in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Migrants staying at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, are asked to help clean the grounds before continuing their journey. The shelter is on Guatemala's northwestern border with Mexico. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Luis Alberto Diaz Cujcuj and his wife, Silvia Marilena Choch de Diaz, took out a loan on their property so Cujcuj could make his way to the U.S.and new is heavily in debt. The Patzun, Guatemala man worked at Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, before being deported. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A shop in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, entices customers with a street display. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Former Postville, Iowa, worker Luis Alberto Diaz Cujcuj (right) talked about being chained on his deportation flight. With Cujcuj were underage Postville workers, Marcos Alexander Guerra Garcia (from left), Osbeli Junesh Hernandez and Alfredo Marroquin Argueta. They talked in the small village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A man selling fish on the beach at Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, wore a shirt announcing an 2007 arts festival sponsored in part by the Poplar Bluff, Mo., Regional Medical Center and the Missouri Arts Council. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The Rev. Bill Vasey in Guatemala City. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
People form long lines daily at the American embassy in Guatemala City to obtain visas for entry into the U.S. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu talked about human trafficking at her home in Guatemala City. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Former Postville, Iowa, worker Marvin Perez-Gomez, his wife, Blanca, and daughter, Andrea, 4, now sell used clothing from the front room of their home in Guatemala. The clothing comes into the country in shipping containers from the United States. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Maria Asuncion Otzin feeds chickens behind her home in San Miguel Duenas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The family of former Postville, Iowa, worker, Mardoqueo Valle Callejas, have lost their home in Calderas, Guatemala. They are sons Abilio Ormeli Valle Mejia (from left), Rody Mardoqueo Valle Mejia, Jordan Odermar Valle Mejia, wife, Sabina Mejia de Valle, and daughter, Jaslin Aide Valle Mejia. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Many workers deported after the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant raid lived in the remote highland village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala, and surrounding area. What little work is available around Calderas provides only the equivalent of a few dollars a day. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Sabina Mejia de Valle uses a wood-fired stove to cook maze in her borrowed house in San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. The family lost their house after her husband, Mardoqueo Valle Callejas, was arrested in Postville, Iowa, and deported. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Migrants that stay a Casa del Migrante in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, are asked to help clean the grounds, including the area just outside the gate each morning. The shelter is on Guatemala's northwestern border with Mexico. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Six-year-old Reyna paused while walking the beach selling trinkets and fruit at Puerto San Jose on Guatemala's Pacific coast. People all over Guatemala sell things along the streets and roads to eke out a living. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A photographer selling instant pictures on the beach at Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, carried a blow-up prop that children posed with. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Corn leaves are gathered for animal feed in the remote highland village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The American influence can be seen in Guatemala City. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Laundry hangs to dry in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. Many of the workers at the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant that was raided in 2008, were from El Rosario, nearby San Jose Calderas and surrounding areas. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Snacks and groceries are for sale in small shops in the remote highland village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Trash litters the beach at Puerto San Jose on Guatemala's Pacific coast. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Kids play in the yard of Luis Alberto Diaz Cujcuj in Patzun, Guatemala. CujCuj was heavily in debt after being deported following the 2008 raid on the Agriprocessors kosher meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
With five children still alive and over 40 grandchildren, the hands of 89-year-old Maria Ruperta Morales of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala, show the effects of life in the remote highland village. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Migrants heading north wait for a raft ride across the Suchiate River, which separates Guatemala from Mexico. The crossing is only a block away from the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Wood is carried down from the hills for cooking and heat in Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Rev. Ademar Barilli is the director of Casa del Migrante in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Vendors sell food and goods near the central park square in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A bare concrete floor with walls cobbled together from found materials creates a bedroom in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Helen Yulisa Toj, 10, washed dishes in the outdoor sink at her home in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. Many of the workers at the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant that was raided in 2008, came from El Rosario, nearby San Jose Calderas and surrounding areas. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Youngsters played soccer along the surf at Puerto San Jose, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
With little to occupy their time, boys play poker for cash along a walkway in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Migrants such as Jose Daniel Turcicios (foreground) usually stay at the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, for a day or two before continuing their journey. The shelter is on Guatemala's northwestern border with Mexico. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Seated on a makeshift raft, migrants head across the Suchiate River on Guatemala's northern border on their journey to the United States. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A migrant waits for a ride across the Suchiate River on Guatemala's northern border with Mexico. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Seated on a makeshift raft, migrants head across the Suchiate River on Guatemala's northern border on their journey to the United States. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Homes are cobbled together with a variety of materials in the small highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. Many of the workers at the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant that was raided in 2008, were from El Rosario, nearby San Jose Calderas and surrounding areas. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A dirt street runs just outside the walls of the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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A man picked through the burning garbage dump outside San Jose Caldares, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The central park in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, provides a place to gather. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A man walks an emaciated horse through the remote highland village of San Jose Calderas, Guatemala. 07192009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
At the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, volunteer Delia Gallegos (right) sorted laundry as migrants helped wash bed linens. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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Silvia Marilena Choch de Diaz of Patzun, Guatemala, wears an example of her fine hand-embroidery. She is the wife of Luis Alberto Diaz Cujcuj, who was deported after the raid on the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A man heading north at the Guatemalan border with Mexico was providing some free advertising for the New York Yankees. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
The beach at Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, is dark, volcanic sand but it is littered with trash. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A hammock and a nearby open door helps Ofelia Hernandez keep cool in her Puerto San Jose home near Guatemala's Pacific coast. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Maria Asuncion Otzin, the mother of a Postville, Iowa, worker who remains in Iowa, thinks birds in her yard were poisoned by neighbor who wants some of the money her daughter is sending. She was keeping them in a cage to nurse them back to health. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
A concrete and stone walkway provides access to homes in the remote highland village of El Rosario, Guatemala. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Rafts carry migrants across the Suchiate River, which separates Guatemala from Mexico The crossing is only a couple of blocks away from the Casa del Migrante shelter in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. Some with proper papers use the bridge. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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At an open-air restaurant on the beach at Puerto San Jose, Guatemala, the food preparation area and kitchen are covered but open to the ocean breeze. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
Sitting in front of her home in San Miguel Duenas, Guatemala, Maria Asuncion Otzin talked about her daughter, Irma Rucal, who was able to get a visa after the Postville, Iowa, meat packing plant raid in 2008. Rucal was able to stay in the U.S. With her is her husband, Eulogio Hernandez. 2009 KEITH MYERS/The Kansas City Star
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