Postville, Iowa

Postville, Iowa

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On May 12, 2008, the quiet little town of Postville, Iowa, changed forever. That day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out one of the largest raids in the history of the United States at a meat processing plant: they detained almost 400 undocumented workers, and around 300 of them were deported. Postville would never be the same.

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CREDITS

PRODUCED BY
Lisette Arévalo


REPORTED BY
Andrea Patiño y Almudena Toral


EDITED BY
Daniel Alarcón, Camila Segura y Silvia Viñas


SOUND DESIGN BY
Andrés Azpiri y Rémy Lozano


ILLUSTRATION
Jugo Gástrico (Rocío Urtecho)


FACT CHECKING 
Andrea López-Cruzado


COUNTRY
Estados Unidos


PUBLISHED ON
10/23/2018

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