When His Mom Was Deported In 2008, A Certainty Shattered: 'Where Is Home?'
Pedro Lopez, a 24-year-old born in Mexico, recalls when ICE agents raided the meatpacking plant in Iowa where his parents worked. "It was just shattering," he said.
Pedro Lopez was in seventh grade when a rumor began to spread through his school in 2008: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were raiding Agriprocessors, the meatpacking plant where his parents worked, in his small hometown of Postville, Iowa.
Soon, Lopez would learn that his mother was among the nearly 400 workers detained at the plant in one of the largest workplace raids in the U.S.
"It was just shattering," said
