In Postville, Iowa, a town that likely none of us had heard of until just now, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials hit Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher meat processing plant, in May of this year- arresting about 400 people.

Today the families of those 400 plant employees went to Congress to make their voices heard- saying that the raid was handled violently and inhumanely, and that rather than punishing the hundreds of people who just wanted to work, and the hundreds more affected by their arrests, the focus on punishment should be on the plant itself.

Even the Mayor of Postville has stepped up to say that all the raid succeeded in was tearing apart the community.

As of the moment the Congressional panel and the ICE have not returned calls placed by the associated press, but depending on the judgement that falls after this raid, the course for all other immigration issues could be changed from here out.

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