America First: Legacy Of An Immigration Raid
Directed by Almudena Toral, Andrea Patiño Contreras
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How a Brutal Immigration Raid Devastated an American Small Town — and How It Bounced Back
It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered the largest immigration raid at a worksite in U.S. history: 389 immigrants were arrested in the biggest kosher meatpacking plant in the country. As Donald Trump revives some aspects of George W. Bush’s immigration enforcement policies, the Postville experience sheds light on the impact, efficiency and repercussions of massive worksite raids.Read moreLess
It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered the largest immigration raid at a worksite in U.S. history: 389 immigrants were arrested in the biggest kosher meatpacking plant in the country. As Donald Trump revives some aspects of George W. Bush’s immigration enforcement policies, the Postville experience sheds light on the impact, efficiency and repercussions of massive worksite raids.
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It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered the largest immigration raid at a worksite in U.S. history: 389 immigrants were arrested in the biggest kosher meatpacking plant in the country. As Donald Trump revives some aspects of George W. Bush’s immigration enforcement policies, the Postville experience sheds light on the impact, efficiency and repercussions of massive worksite raids.
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- Director
- Almudena Toral
- Director
- Andrea Patiño Contreras
- Editor
- Andrea Patiño Contreras
- Editor
- Almudena Toral
- Editor
- Gerardo del Valle
- Editor
- Mauricio Rodriguez-Pons
- Editor
- Anna Clare Spelman