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Postville Raid
cording to the U.S. attorney′s office for the Northern
District of Iowa, those arrested included “290 Gu-
atemalans, 93 Mexicans, 2 Israelis and 4 Ukrainians”.
Eighteen were juveniles.[2]
A raid had been planned as early as 2000, but was
canceled over political concerns.[3] The 2008 raid had
been planned for months. An affidavit filed in court be-
fore the raid by the Homeland Security Department cited
“the issuance of 697 criminal complaints and arrest war-
rants against persons believed to be current employees”
and to have acted criminally.[4] The affidavit cited un-
named sources who alleged that the company employed
Agriprocessors slaughterhouse and meat packing plant, 15 year old children, that supervisors helped cash checks
Postville, Iowa. Picture taken July 27, 2008 for workers with false documents, and pressured workers
without documents to purchase vehicles and register
The Postville Raid was a raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. them in other names. It also cited a case in which a su-
kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in pervisor blindfolded a Guatemalan worker and allegedly
Postville, Iowa, USA on May 12, 2008, executed by the U.S. struck him with a meat hook, causing no serious injury.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of Sources quoted in the affidavit and application for search
the Department of Homeland Security together with oth- warrant also alleged the existence of a methampheta-
er agencies. The raid was the largest single raid of a work- mine laboratory at the slaughterhouse, and that employ-
place in U.S. history until that date, and resulted in near- ees carried weapons to work.[2] Later press reports do not
ly 400 arrests of immigrant workers with false identity indicate that a methamphetamine laboratory was found
papers who were charged with identity theft, document during the search.
fraud, use of stolen social security numbers, and related The arrested workers were taken to a nearby fair-
offenses. Some 300 workers were convicted on document ground, the National Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa,
fraud charges within four days. The majority served a where they were charged with aggravated identity theft,
five months prison-sentence before being deported. a criminal offense which carries a mandatory two years
Several employees and lower and middle level man- sentence, and briefed on their rights and options. The im-
agers have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to migrant workers, most of them without prior criminal
harbor illegal immigrants, aggravated identity theft, and records, were offered a plea agreement in exchange for
child labor violations among others and were convicted, a guilty plea to lesser charges. 297 accepted the agree-
serving prison sentences between 60 days and 41 months. ment and pleaded guilty to document fraud. In an ex-
Neither the owner, Aaron Rubashkin, nor his sons pedited procedure known as “fast track”, hearings were
Sholom and Heshy Rubashkin, who were in charge of the scheduled over the course of the following three days, in
management of Agriprocessors, have been convicted of which the judges took guilty pleas from the defendants,
immigration and labor law violations. Financial irregu- who were bound by handcuffs at the wrists as well as
larities brought to light by the raid and subsequent inves- chains from their upper torso to their ankles, in groups
tigations led to a conviction of the plant’s chief executive of ten, and sentenced them immediately, five at a time.[5]
Sholom Rubashkin on bank fraud and related charges and Most of the workers were sentenced to five months in
to his being sentenced to 27 years in prison, but his trial prison and were deported afterwards.[6] Before this raid,
on immigration charges was canceled. undocumented people who had no prior records were
usually not criminally charged in the aftermath of a raid,
but were instantly deported on civil immigration viola-
The Raid tions.[5] Forty-one of those arrested were allowed to re-
With helicopters, buses and vans, hundreds of Federal of- main in the USA, being granted a special visa, known as
ficials from the ICE together with agents and officers of U-visa, for those who have suffered violent abuse.[7]
other federal, state, and local agencies, raided the meat In a decision issued on May 4, 2009 the U.S. Supreme
packing plant in the morning hours of 12 May 2008, seiz- Court ruled that federal prosecutors have inappropriate-
ing company records and arresting 389 individuals.[1] Ac- ly used aggravated identity theft laws to prosecute un-
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documented workers. According to the ruling, a prosecu- documents, and encouraging aliens to illegally reside in
tor must be able to show that immigrants knowingly used the United States. Guerrero-Espinoza was also charged
identification that actually belonged to another person, with aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft. In
not merely that they were using fake documents, as in late August 2008, Guerrero-Espinoza reached a deal with
the case of the Postville detainees.[8] federal prosecutors and was sentenced to 36 months in
The Rubashkin family, ultra-Orthodox Jews of the federal prison. The plea deal allowed him to avoid de-
Lubavitcher hasidic movement, who owned and operated portation and for his wife and children to return to the
Agriprocessors, has denied any knowledge of criminal ac- US following his prison term. The sentence included a
tivity. Aaron Rubashkin, the owner of the company said two year mandatory ruling for aggravated identity theft.
that “he had no idea that his workers were illegal and After the ruling of the Supreme Court issued on May 4,
that they had produced what appeared to be legitimate 2009, he made a request for the reduction of his sen-
work documents.[9] Getzel Rubashkin, one of his grand- tence.[19] Aggravated identity theft charges had formerly
sons who worked at the plant, was reported as saying: been dismissed against human resources employee Laura
“Obviously some of the people here were presenting false Althouse, supervisor Brent Beebe and CEO Sholom
documents. Immigration authorities somehow picked it Rubashkin, the motion contended.[19] In late February
up and they did what they are supposed to do, they came 2009, De La Rosa-Loera was sentenced to 23 months in
and picked them up. God bless them for it.”[10] federal prison.[20] Both Guerrero-Espinoza and De La
According to the ICE, costs of the raid totaled Rosa-Loera, after being released from jail, have gone back
$5.211.092 as of August 21, 2008, not including costs as- to work at the meatpacking plant under the new owner-
sociated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Depart- ship.[21]
ment of Labor or local Postville authorities.[11] In September 2008 Aaron Rubashkin, his son Sholom
Rubashkin, as well as the company′s human resources
Impact manager, Elizabeth Billmeyer, and two office employees,
Laura Althouse and Karina Freund were charged for child
The raid had a significant impact on the Postville com- labor violations.[22] State child labor charges against
munity. The town, with a census population of only Aaron Rubashkin were dropped, and he was never
2,273[12], lost a large percentage of its population due to charged federally.[23]
the arrests.[13] As a result of the difficulties Agriproces- In October 2008 Althouse pleaded guilty to one count
sors faced after the raid, the plant stopped slaughtering of conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens and one count of
cattle in October 2008, and filed for bankruptcy on aggravated identity theft.[24] She was sentenced to two
November 5, 2008.[14] The City Council declared Postville years federal probation, Freund to one year of proba-
a humanitarian and economic disaster area, but federal tion.[23] Billmeyer was sentenced to one year and one day
officials said the town didn’t qualify for help.[15] in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised re-
Agriprocessors was bought at auction in July 2009 and lease for harboring undocumented aliens and accepting
has resumed production under the new name “Agri Star” counterfeit resident alien cards.[24] After she has agreed
on a lower scale.[16] to plead to state child labor charges under an agreement
Several Agriprocessors employees and managers with the state, her sentence was reduced to eight
were indicted on charges of conspiracy to harbor illegal months.[23] Former human resources assistant Penny
immigrants and were convicted, whereas related charges Hanson was sentenced to two years probation on January
brought against the owner, Aaron Rubashkin and his son 7, 2010.[24] State child law charges are still pending
and CEO of the company, Sholom Rubashkin were dis- against former Agriprocessors supervisor Jeff Heasley,
missed. However, the financial irregularities that were who had his case separated from the other defen-
brought to light by the raid and subsequent investiga- dants.[23]
tions lead to a $35 million bank fraud-charge against the On October 30, 2008 Sholom Rubashkin was arrested
plant′s top manager Sholom Rubashkin, who was con- and charged with conspiracy to harbor undocumented
victed and sentenced to 27 years in prison. aliens for profit, aiding and abetting document fraud, and
aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft. He was re-
Indictments and Convictions leased on conditions that he wear a GPS ankle bracelet,
On July 3, 2008 two senior supervisors, Juan Carlos limit his travel to the Northern District of Iowa, surren-
Guerrero-Espinoza, supervisor of the beef kill depart- der his passport and his wife′s passport, and provide a $1
ment and three other departments,[17] and Martin De million appearance bond with $500,000 to be secured. On
La Rosa-Loera, supervisor of the poultry kill department November 14, 2008 he was arrested again on a charge of
and three other departments,[18] were arrested at the a $35 million bank fraud.[25]
Agriprocessors plant. They were charged with aiding and On November 21, 2008 Sholom Rubashkin, Brent
abetting the possession and use of fraudulent identity Beebe, one of two operations managers at the
Agriprocessors plant, poultry managers Hosam Amara
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and Zeev Levi, and human resources employee Karina Reactions
Freund were indicted with charges including conspiracy,
harboring illegal aliens, aggravated identity theft, docu-
ment fraud and bank fraud.[26] Beebe pleaded guilty in
January 2010 to conspiracy to commit document fraud
as part of a plea agreement with the government. In the
plea, Beebe admitted that he conspired with former vice
president Sholom Rubashkin and others a week before
the May 12, 2008 immigration raid at the plant to buy
fake identification documents for 19 employees. He was
sentenced to 10 months in prison on May 26, 2010. The
charges against Freund were dismissed.[27] At the same
date, Mitch Meltzer, the plant′s former head accountant,
was sentenced to 41-months in prison after his convic-
tion on a federal conspiracy charge. He had admitted in Protest Rally on July 27, 2008
late September 2009, that he conspired with others to
make false statements to a bank and that he signed false
financial records that were used to mislead the banks.
In addition to the prison term, Meltzer was ordered to
repay $26.9 million in restitution.[28] Meltzer had been
hired by the meat plant′s new owner after having been
dismissed by Agriprocessors′ government-appointed
trustee, and remained at the company for several months
after he pleaded guilty to financial fraud.[29] Amara and
Levi have fled the USA.[30] Amara was arrested in Israel
on March 31, 2011. He is facing extradition proceedings.
Levi who supposedly also fled to Israel hasn’t been found
by authorities to date.[31]
On November 12, 2009 Sholom Rubashkin was con- Protest Rally on July 27, 2008
victed in federal court on 86 charges of financial fraud,
including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud and money The raid has received wide national publicity. Lawmakers
laundering.[32] On June 22, 2010 he was sentenced to and labor union representatives criticised the Bush ad-
serve 27 years in prison and to make $27 million in resti- ministration as disproportionately targeting workers in-
tution.[7] stead of employers.[2] Members of the Congressional His-
On November 23, 2009, Sholom Rubashkin′s second panic Caucus met with Agriprocessors′ workers and com-
federal trial on 72 immigration charges was canceled. munity leaders in Postville, and Congressional hearings
After winning the financial fraud conviction, federal were held before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary
prosecutors dismissed all immigration-related charges Committee, which split largely across party lines in its
against him. In its motion to dismiss, the U.S. Attorneys reaction to the events of the raid.[36] Jewish organisa-
Office said any conviction on the immigration charges tions, reacting to the raid as well as to earlier criticism of
would have no impact upon his sentence, writing, “dis- Agriprocessors′ labor practices and slaughter methods,
missal will avoid an extended and expensive trial, con- addressed questions of Jewish ethics, stressing the im-
serve limited resources, and lessen the inconvenience portance of the commandments (hebrew: mitzvot) con-
to witnesses.”[33] Without that trial, it is unlikely that cerning the relationship between human beings (hebrew:
much of the immigration-related evidence gathered at mitzvot ben adam l’havero), alongside those between hu-
the Agriprocessors site following the raid, or much of the man beings and god (hebrew: mitzvot ben adam
key witness testimony, will ever be publicly revealed.[19] l’makom).[37]
On June 7, 2010 Sholom Rubashkin was acquitted in On the day of the raid, up to 200 protesters had gath-
state court of knowingly hiring 29 underage workers at ered at National Cattle Congress in Waterloo and later
the plant.[34] held a vigil outside its gates on behalf of the detainees.[1]
On June 30, 2010 Alvaro Julian Garcia Jr., aged 73, was On July 27, 2008 a rally organized by St. Bridget′s Catholic
sentenced to 60 days in jail followed by two years of su- Church in Postville, Jewish Community Action of St. Paul,
pervised release, for having registered vehicles that were Minnesota, and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs of
sold to undocumented workers in Postville between 2004 Chicago was held in Postville to protest working condi-
and 2006 as part of a vehicle title scheme.[35] tions in the plant, and to call for Congressional legisla-
tion to give legal status to illegal immigrants.[38] About
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1,000 people, including Catholic clergy members, rabbis Iowa Bruce Braley, ICE claimed to have “fully coordinated
and Jewish activists, and Hispanic immigrants held a in- its activities with other Federal agencies, including the
terfaith service at St. Bridget′s Catholic Church, and Department of Labor prior to the May 12 operation at the
marched through the center of town to the entrance of Agriprocessors facility”, whereas the Department of La-
the meatpacking plant.[10] bor stated in a letter of July 3, that, “‘the raid occurred
The first anniversary of the raid, was marked by a without the prior knowledge or participation of the Wage
prayer vigil followed by a procession to the National Cat- and Hour Division’ and that, ‘no advance notice was given
tle Congress grounds on May 11, 2009 in Waterloo,[39] on to WHD or any other Department of Labor agency prior
May 12, a prayer service and vigil at St. Bridget′s Catholic to the raid’. In addition, the DOL letter states that the
Church, followed by a procession to Agriprocessors, took May 12 enforcement action ‘changes the complexion of
place in Postville.[40] Both events were attended by rep- WHD’s investigation of Agriprocessors.’”[46]
resentatives of Christian and Jewish faiths, who demon- Iowa Governor Chet Culver criticised Agriprocessors
strated their solidarity and spoke out for immigration re- in a guest editorial on August 24, 2008, comparing it to
form. Prayer vigils were also held on the second anniver- Upton Sinclair′s 1906 novel “The Jungle”: “Alarming in-
sary of the raid in Waterloo and Postville.[41] formation about working conditions at the Postville
In “response to the humanitarian and economic dis- plant ... brought to national attention by the raid forces
aster” created by the raid, the “Postville Response Coali- me to believe that, in contrast to our state’s overall
tion”, composed of community organizations, the faith economic-development strategy, this company’s owners
community, and city and county government officials have deliberately chosen to take the low road in its busi-
was founded in November 2008 to help individuals and ness practices.”[47] One day later, then presidential can-
families.[42] It was dissolved on March 31, 2010 after the didate Barack Obama spoke out against Agriprocessors’
meatpacking plant had reopened under new ownership managers, without mentioning Agriprocessors by name
and the community began to recover from the raid and though, while campaigning in Iowa.[48] During Obama′s
the subsequent closure of the plant.[43] A new organiza- first year as president, raids on workplaces have been
tion called “Postville First” was created through the im- reduced, but deportations of illegal immigrants have in-
petus of the “Postville Response Coalition”.[44] creased by nearly 10 percent from the last year of the
Bush presidency.[49]
Reactions of Political figures
Zoe Lofgren, Democratic member of the House of Rep- Reactions of Jewish organizations
resentatives who chairs the House Judiciary Committee′s Several Jewish organisations had voiced concern about
immigration panel, criticised the raid for the treatment Agriprocessors′ meat products meeting ethical standards
of the workers during the raid itself, for subsequent “co- of kashrut ever since the first criticism of its slaughtering
ercion” of guilty pleas, and for targeting workers rather methods and working conditions were made public, the
than employers.[45] The American Civil Liberties Union former by the animal rights organization PETA,[50]
(ACLU) has criticised the three-day series of court hear- brought to the attention of the general public by the New
ings in the aftermath of the raid, and has published a York Times, in November 2004,[51] and the latter by the
copy of a “script” that attorneys were given to use in Jewish newspaper The Forward in 2006.[52] As a result of
discussing possible plea agreements with their clients.[5] it, an ethical certification for kosher products, Heksher
Officials from the office of United States Attorney Matt Tzedek (English: ethical certification), introduced by
Dummermuth, whose staff assisted in the preparation of Rabbi Morris Allen, was endorsed in 2007 by the Rabbini-
the documents used in the hearings, have defended the cal Assembly, the international association of Conserva-
proceedings. Bob Teig, a spokesman for Mr. Dummer- tive rabbis.[53]
muth′s office, noted that the scripts were used only to After the raid, Modern Orthodox rabbis met in Los
ensure that the individuals being charged with crimes Angeles on May 18, 2008 to discuss creating a heksher
“...were fully advised of their rights and fully understood (English: kosher certification) for ethical issues.[54] The
the consequences of their decisions to plead guilty.”[5] United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Rab-
Also, the raid and prosecutions took place while in- binical Assembly on May 22, 2008 issued a statement,
vestigations of the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the requesting “that consumers of kosher meat evaluate
Department of Labor (DOL) for possible violations of the whether it is appropriate to buy and eat meat products
Fair Labor Standards Act against Agriprocessors were un- produced by the Rubashkin’s label”, adding that “the al-
derway. Concern was voiced, that the ICE raid may have legations about the terrible treatment of workers em-
had an impact on the ability of the Department of La- ployed by Rubashkin’s have shocked and appalled mem-
bor to conduct its investigation of the workplace, and bers of the Conservative movement as well as all people
that workers able to assist in the investigation or vic- of conscience. As kashrut seeks to diminish animal suf-
tims of possible violations may have been among those fering and offer a humane method of slaughter, it is bit-
arrested. According to Democratic Representative from terly ironic that a plant producing kosher meat be guilty
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Further reading
• Mark A.
meat_packing_raid_stirs_larger_ethical_and_economic_concerns/.Grey, Michele Devlin and Aaron Goldsmith:
Retrieved 2010-08-06. Postville, U.S.A.: Surviving Diversity in Small-Town
[55] "Regarding Rubashkin’s Meat Products". United America. Gemma Media, Boston 2009 ISBN
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. 2008-05-22. 9781934848647
http://www.uscj.org/
Regarding_Rubashkins7738.html. Retrieved
2010-08-06.
External links
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Labor Committee. 2008-05-23. Raid (in English and Spanish).
http://www.jewishlaborcommittee.org/2008/05/ • Immigration Raids: Postville and beyond. Hearing
agriprocessors_jlc_policy_stat_1.html. Retrieved before the Subcommittee on Immigration,
2010-08-06. Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and
[57] "Letter to Mr. Aaron Rubashkin". Uri L′Tzedek. International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary
2008-05-23. http://utzedek.org/component/ House of Representatives one hundred tenth
content/article/1-otherpages/39-agriprocessors- Congress second Session, July 24, 2008 Serial No.
rubashkin-letter.html. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 110–198
Marissa Brostoff (2008-06-19). "In Heated Meeting, • The Postville Project Luther College and University
Orthodox Activists Spar With Kosher Meat of Northern Iowa
Company". The Jewish Daily Forward. • Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora (2009). "Lessons for
http://www.forward.com/articles/13619/. Immigration Reform". Iowa State University.
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[58] Lynda Waddington (2008-07-08). "Uri L’Tzedek Flora.pdf.
Ends Rubashkin Product Boycott". The Iowa • Erik Camayd-Freixas (2008-06-13). "Interpreting
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uri-ltzedek-ends-rubashkin-product-boycott. Account". http://www.essentialestrogen.com/pdf/
Retrieved 2010-08-06. camayd_freixas_essay.pdf.
[59] Lynda Waddington (2008-09-09). "Agriprocessors: • Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz, ed (2010). "Perfidy in Iowa.
Orthodox Union to Agriprocessors: Hire new The Saga of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin as
management or lose certification". The Iowa reported in the pages of Yated Ne′eman". Yated
Independent. http://iowaindependent.com/5257/ Ne′eman, Monsey, NY.
orthodox-union-to-agriprocessors-hire-new- https://www.yated.com//_yated/uploads/
management-or-lose-kosher-certification. documents/Perfidy_in_Iowa.pdf.
Retrieved 2010-08-06. • Allison L. McCarthy (2010). "The May 12, 2008
[60] Nathaniel Popper (2009-01-21). "Orthodox Rabbis Postville, Iowa Immigration Raid: A Human Rights
Rally Around Rubashkin as He Sits in Jail". The Perspective". University of Iowa College of Law.
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TLCP%20Articles/19-1/
mccarthy.finalfinal.mlb.022710.pdf.
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