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The 2008 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a Postville, Iowa, meatpacking plant revealed deep divisions within the community about local and national immigration policy. Using postings to a newspaper blog following the raid, this paper theorizes about and examines the regressive processes that are often created by the presence of the immigrant other within our communities.