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- Title
An Iowa Immigration Raid Leads to Unprecedented Criminal Consequences: Why ICE Should Rethink the Postville Model.
- Authors
Peterson, Cassie L.
- Abstract
On May 12, 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") conducted what was then the largest single-site immigration raid in U.S. history. The raid took place in Postville, Iowa. ICE arrested 389 employees, convicting 297 of them for fraud-related offenses. This marked a significant shift in immigration-enforcement policy toward criminalizing what were previously administrative violations. Critics faulted the Postville model, which included a patterned plea agreement, for being too secretive and improperly expediting the criminal process. These critics feared that ICE violated the detainees' due-process rights. This Note considers whether there were due-process violations and what the significance of a shift toward criminalizing immigration offenses means for unauthorized workers--and all other persons--living in the United States.
- Subjects
IOWA; POSTVILLE (Iowa); UNITED States; UNITED States emigration &; immigration; LAW enforcement; DUE process of law
- Publication
Iowa Law Review, 2009, Vol 95, Issue 1, p323
- ISSN
0021-0552
- Publication type
Article