The 2008 raid on a Postville, Iowa, meatpacking plant by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that ignited church efforts for a more just immigration policy is now the subject of a documentary, "abUSed: The Postville Raid [1]," by Luis Argueta and Vivian Rivas.

According to this report from the Des Moines Register [2], a federal judge who participated in court hearings after the immigration raid says the legal proceedings were "a travesty."

"I was embarrassed to be a United States District Court judge that day," District Judge Mark Bennett told the filmmakers.

NCR has followed this story closely since 2008:

• Immigration challenges church to respond with courage [3]


• Guatemalan families reunite in Iowa [4]


• Immigrant nightmare [5]


• Iowa community rallies to help families after raids [6]


• Church, country face immigration crisis with no borders [7], an NCR editorial