Raid on upstate New York food manufacturer leads to dozens of detentions

CATO, NY (AP) -Federal agents opened the doors of a Snack bar manufacturer and took dozens of workers with a surprise practice that he called “terrible ında.

The videos and photos taken at the nutrition bar candies facility on Thursday showed that a large number of law enforcement vehicles and workers accompanied a border patrol van from the building. Immigration According to a 24 -year -old worker who was detained briefly, the agents ordered everyone to have a lunch, where they asked for evidence that the workers were legally in the country.

The cause of the execution action was uncertain. Local law enforcement officers, the operation of the US internal security investigations that do not respond to information requests, he said. Lenny Schmidt, a common owner of nutrition bar candy, said that the pressure was in the dark about the purpose of the pressure.

Schmidt said to Associated Press on Friday, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Syracuse, and on Friday, the Associated Press said to the Associated Press.

Schmidt said that all employees of the facility have been examined and have legal documentation, and if it is said that there are concerns, he would cooperate with law enforcement officers.

“It sounds as they do, frightening for everyone – Latins working here, Hispanics, and everyone who works here, even myself and my family. Terrible,” he said.

Cayuga district Şerif Brian Schenck said a month ago that the federal institutions were among those at the scene on Thursday morning after asking the federal institutions to help to conduct a search order.

He did not detail the nature of the investigation.

The lack of explanation left Senator Rachel May, a democrat who represented the region, with questions.

On May May Friday, a long -standing criminal investigation, is not clear why workers will recover, ”he said. “I feel like there are things that are not fully collected.”

The worker tells a surprise raid

Speaking about the condition of anonymity with Associated Press because he was afraid of revenge, the 24 -year -old worker said that he wrote his knowledge and photographed the agents after showing that he was a legal resident.

Six years ago, the worker from Guatemala, after working with an immigration lawyer two years ago, “Some women began to cry because children at school or day care. To see very sad,” he said.

He said that his partner was deprived of legal status and was among those who were taken.

The two began to work in the factory about two years ago. Snack was appointed to the bar packaging department and was appointed to the packaging area. He said he couldn’t talk to him before he was ruled by the agents and that he was detained on Friday.

“What they do to us is not true. We are here to work. We are not guilty,” he said.

Schmidt said that immigrant executive agents have chosen any company with “small or large, some kind of Spanish labor force”.

Raid on the same day of immigration officials 475 people were detainedMost of the South Korean citizens are in a production area where Korean car manufacturer Hyundai in Georgia makes electric vehicles.

Without lost employees, Schmidt made it difficult to meet the customer demand by predicting that the production of the food manufacturer would fall about half. The facility employs close to 230 people.

“We will do what we need to do to move forward to give our customers’ product,” he said.

Dozens of

The New York government Kathy Hochul, a democrat, said that the parents of the detained workers were the risk of “at least a dozen child’s risk of returning from school to an empty house.”

“I have made it clear: New York will work with the federal government to secure our borders and deport violent criminals, but we will never rely on masked ice agents who separate families and abandon children,” he said.

The advocacy of the Ministry of Rural and Immigration said that 50 to 60 people from Guatemala, most of them, are still on Friday. The group’s chief program officer Wilmer Jimenez said that he was the mother of a newborn child, who was released late on Thursday.

The worker, who was taken into custody briefly, said that he helped support his parents and brothers who raised Egypt and Beans in Guatemala.

He said he was released on Friday, but plans to return to work on Monday.

“I have to go back because I can’t be unemployed,” he said.

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Olga Rodriguez and Buffalo in San Francisco contributed to this report in Carolyn Thompson in New York.