15 Years After The Largest Immigration Raid in the Midwest

Twenty percent of an Iowa town's population disappeared overnight thanks to broken immigration laws.

Fifteen years ago, the US government spent over $5M on what was then the largest immigration raid in the history of the country. They arrested 389 undocumented workers at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant, approximately 20% of Postville’s population. Of those arrested, 290 were Guatemalan, 93 Mexican, 4 Ukrainian and 2 were Israeli. In 2008 Po…