Immigrants in Iowa

According to the US government, the number of Hispanics there has increased by 150 per cent since 1990. Mike Kirsch takes a look at the changing face of one Iowa town, as the candidates make a final appeal to voters before the all important Iowa caucus.

In Postville, Iowa, illegal immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico find Iowans by their side in a parade of solidarity, a way of thanking them for doing the low-paying jobs that drives the economy here, a job that most Iowans can't stomach doing, cleaning the blood and guts of slaughtered livestock off the 'kill floor' of the town's meat packing plant."

Once a $20 an hour job for Iowas in the previous meat packing plant which burned down, now an $8 an hour job for Latinos. After Hassidic Jews from Russia arrived and began operating the largest Kosher meat packing plant in the US and the largest source of work in this town.