One year ago today, federal officials raided Agriprocessors, Inc., a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, and arrested nearly 400 workers.

The raid was one of the largest worksite enforcement actions in U.S. history. Now, one year after the Postville raid and just over 100 days after President Barack Obama took office, the new administration has announced limited improvements in federal immigration enforcement policies.

However, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has indicated it may continue to arrest workers in raids. Furthermore, nearly 40,000 immigrant men, women, and children remain detained in a patchwork detention system that operates with little transparency or accountability. Nearly 90 people have died in that system since 2003. President Obama, who has repeatedly expressed support for fair immigration reform, must understand that any efforts to fix the broken immigration system must address the human rights and due process violations that have become all too routine in U.S. immigration enforcement.

The due process and human rights violations that occurred in the Postville raid were the topics of two previous editions of NIJC's Defending Human Rights & Due Process Policy Brief. The third edition, released today, examines how the Obama administration has addressed human rights and due process concerns for immigrants in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security. The brief covers major policy changes and discussions that have come out of the administration during their first months in office and provides recommendations for reforms that would promote transparency in the detention system and ensure human rights and due process protections for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.