On May 12, an immigration raid of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, led to the arrest of almost four hundred workers. Some nine hundred Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers took part in the raid.
Dr. Erik Camayd-Freixas was on hand for the aftermath, serving as a Spanish-language interpreter for the court proceedings. He later wrote an essay describing the tragic mishandling of justice he witnessed. Click here to read that essay. Or here to read a New York Times op-ed on the subject.
