America First: Legacy Of An Immigration Raid 2018

How a Brutal Immigration Raid Devastated an American Small Town — and How It Bounced Back

Directed by Andrea Patiño Contreras

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.