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TexasTowelie

(116,763 posts)
Sat Sep 15, 2018, 02:41 PM Sep 2018

ICE detains dozens in Alma factory raid

ALMA, Ark.— The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has detained at least two dozen people suspected of living in the country illegally after raiding a northwestern Arkansas food-processing plant.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents served a search warrant Wednesday morning at the Bryant Preserving Co. in Alma. The warrant was for an existing criminal investigation, but ICE spokesman Bryan Cox wouldn't provide further detail.

Agents took into custody more than two dozen people suspected of living in the U.S. illegally. Cox said Wednesday that he doesn't have a specific number of detained employees because some were still being processed and others had since been released.

"If there is some violation of federal immigration law, we do not turn a blind eye," he said.

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2018/sep/14/ice-detains-dozens-factory-raid/743307/

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ICE detains dozens in Alma factory raid (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2018 OP
"...we do not turn a blind eye," he said. "Except for employers. We let employers off scott free." ret5hd Sep 2018 #1
Precisely Sherman A1 Sep 2018 #2

ret5hd

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1. "...we do not turn a blind eye," he said. "Except for employers. We let employers off scott free."
Sat Sep 15, 2018, 02:50 PM
Sep 2018

"Especially if they are the ones that called us so they could avoid paying these freeloaders for the previous weeks work. We call that 'Inventive Entrepreneurship' and frankly we find it very humorous!"

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