A few of weeks ago:

The largest workplace raid in Iowa history Monday resulted in the arrest of more than 300 people and reignited the debate over immigration.

As two law enforcement helicopters hovered overhead, dozens of federal agents descended on Agriprocessors Inc., the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse.

The May issue of The Believer tells the oral history of Liso, an undocumented worker living in the U.S. I was just lazily perusing my copy, this Sunday morning, when I read this sobering story.