Shattered Dreams: The story of a historic ICE raid in the words of the detainees. Edited by Virginia Gibbs and Luz María Hernández, Editors.

Shattered Dreams: The story of a historic ICE raid in the words of the detainees. Virginia Gibbs and Luz María Hernández, Editors. ISBN: 978-1491086377 $22.95

This is a joint publication of Floricanto and Berkeley Presses. In May of 2008, the small town of Postville, Iowa, experienced an Immigration Raid in which nearly 400 Latino immigrant workers in the meat processing industry were arrested. The Postville Raid, the second largest in U.S. history, was the first and last of its kind. Instead of immediately deporting the undocumented, they were tried in groups of ten on charges of identity theft and then sent to jail for 5 ½ months. A group of 40 women were arrested but released with GPS monitors on their ankles so that they could care for young children, and were held in Postville for over a year during which they were not allowed to work to support their families. These are the life stories, told in their own words, of some of the workers who were affected by the raid.