Movie Guide: AbUSed the Postville Raid by Barbara Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. A true story, this film is EXCELLENT at explaining how undocumented workers are detained, deported, separated from families, how they are processed, why they come to work, and the responsibilities of the people who own businesses that benefit from their presence. The documentary is in English with subtitled interviews in Spanish and runs just over an hour. Film covers what happens when ICE agents invade a meat processing plant in Postville Iowa. This film works well for a social studies class discussing immigration or a Spanish class. There are several links for follow up trailers if you want to track with students what happened a year later. 900 Federal agents, supported by helicopters and State police, arrested almost 400 workers from Agriprocessors, Inc., the largest kosher meat packing plant in the country. Film runs just over an hour and is available for purchase at or on demand at vimeo. In his movie, AbUSed: The Postville Raid, filmmaker Luis Argueta depicted this phenomenon in the case of the largest immigration raid carried out in the history of the U.S. Movie guide contains 26 questions in chronological order of the film, with opportunities for students to brainstorm, pair share and discuss their thoughts and reactions. Postville, Iowa is where more than 300 Hasidic Jews, plus hundreds of Mexicans, Guatelmalans, Ukrainians and Russians have taken up residence in the last decade.
The raid of Agriprocessors Inc., a slaughterhouse and meat packing plant, by the U.S. A true story, this film is EXCELLENT at explaining what happens to undocumented workers when they are detained, deported, separated from families, how they are processed, why they come to work, and the responsibilities of the people who own the businesses that benefit from their presence. Postville: When cultures collide Iowa Public Television Tells the story of how a small Iowa town is dealing with multiculturalism. The film AbUSed: The Postville Raid focuses on the 2008 arrest of nearly 400 undocumented workers, primarily from Guatemala, in rural Postville, Iowa. This film covers what happens when ICE agents invade a meat processing plant in the small town of Postville Iowa.
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