DES MOINES, Iowa AP – A lawsuit that claimed the government was violating the rights of meatpacking plant workers detained in an immigration raid was dismissed after a key demand was met – keeping the workers in the area, according to an attorney involved in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed in May after the raid at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville in which 400 people were arrested. The lawsuit claimed the detainees were subject to arbitrary and indefinite detention and denied access to attorneys, among other accusations.
