The Legacy of the Biggest Immigration Raid
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In 2008, ICE agents descended on a small rural town in Iowa for their largest operation in the history of the United States. As a result, the population of Postville was slashed almost in half and its economy collapsed. Maria and Julio talk to Almudena Toral and Ronny Rojas, two of the journalists behind a new documentary from Univision detailing the aftermath of the raid. ITT Staff Picks
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to In the Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Maria Inohosa. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Gulliorica Loberella. |
| 0:09.0 | And joining us from Miami, Florida, is al-Moudena, Toral. |
| 0:13.0 | She is with Univision News Digital. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey Al-Moudena, how are you? |
| 0:17.0 | Hi Maria, how are you doing very well? |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.0 | Good, and joining us all the way from 60 miles close to San Jose, Costa Rica is Ronnie Rojas, |
| 0:28.2 | he's an investigative journalist, and he's a Janice Knight Journalism fellow with Stanford University. |
| 0:33.4 | Hey, Ronnie, what's up? |
| 0:34.6 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:35.5 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:36.6 | So, Armoudena, along with Andrea Patino Conteras, |
| 0:42.0 | you directed and produced Univision's newest |
| 0:44.6 | documentary, digital documentary. It's called America First, The Legacy of |
| 0:49.6 | an Immigration Raid. Ronnie, you're based at Stanford University on this fellowship and you did all of the |
| 0:55.5 | data research about what happened in Postville Iowa and this was the largest workplace immigration raid in American history. |
| 1:06.4 | It was 10 years ago under the Bush administration, |
| 1:09.9 | 389 immigrants were arrested in the biggest kosher meat packing plant in the United States |
| 1:17.7 | and it's located in a tiny town in Iowa called Postville. |
| 1:23.2 | There is evidence of identity theft and fake social security numbers. |
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