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How an immigration raid threw a small Iowa town into economic crisis

by Annie Baxter
Aug 3, 2017
Postville's recovery has been slow after hundreds of workers were arrested and virtually disappeared over night.
Signs are displayed in Postville in 2009, a year after an immigration raid crippled a meat processing plant. “It cratered the Northeast Iowa economy,” says Aaron Goldsmith, a local business owner.
ERIK CAMAYD-FREIXAS/AFP/Getty Images
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