Iowa immigration raid is one of biggest of its kind

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Nearly 400 people were arrested Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a raid on a meat-packing plant in Iowa. The raid was apparently one of the biggest of its kind and came after months of planning, according to this release from Immigration and Customs enforcement.

Of the 390 detainees, 290 were Guatemalans and 93 were Mexicans, as well as a handful of Israelis and Ukrainians, officials said in this report.

Associated Press reports below that more than 40 of the detainees were later released, mostly because they have children to look after.

In the second video, from DesMoinesRegister.com, you can watch the families of the detainees in Iowa protesting for their release.

Updates here from the Des Moines Register.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City