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Illegal immigration raid
Illegal immigration raid - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 4:34PM EST
Wednesday, Sep 24, 2008 @ 04:34pm EST
A raid on a Lackawanna County business ends with 23 suspected illegal immigrants taken into custody.
The roundup happened Wednesday morning in Taylor 's Stauffer Industrial Park at the B. C. Bundt commercial bakery.
The women that were arrested were released but still have to appear in court.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they were let go because of humanitarian reasons, usually meaning they have children to care for.
The 18 men, however, are being detained.
Suspected illegal immigrants were taken to the state police barracks in Dunmore .
About an hour later, some were released.
23 people were arrested at the B. C. Bundt commercial bakery in Taylor .
The facility bakes small cakes in bulk.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement took workers into custody at 7 on Wednesday morning.
State and Taylor police helped out.
Taylor police chief Stephen Derenick said, "This is an ongoing investigation, approximately five months now. My people received information that they were working illegal immigrants at the plant here and we shared that information with state police and immigration and customs enforcement."
I. C.E says 21 people arrested were from Mexico .
The other two were from Honduras and Uraguay.
Taylor 's police chief said this about the raid, “It doesn't surprise me because it's all over. It's just that if we get information on it then we're going to follow through on it."
A B. C. Bundt representative says the company had no idea it was employing suspected illegal immigrants.
He says each worker had to provide two forms of American citizen identification. | | |
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