ICE Arrests More Than 100 Undocumented Immigrants in Raid of Ohio Meat-Packing Plant

More than 100 undocumented immigrants were arrested Tuesday after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a raid at an Ohio meat-packing plant.

ICE and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents carried out a criminal search warrant at Fresh Mark in Salem, Ohio, and a federal document search warrant a three other Fresh Mark locations, ICE said in a statement. Agents arrested 146 undocumented immigrants at the Salem location for immigration violations.

ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls told Newsweek that the operation was the largest workplace raid in the region in “at least a decade.” Walls also confirmed that the majority of those arrested were from Guatemala.

Special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) late Tuesday executed a criminal search warrant at Fresh Mark in Salem, OH. Authorities identified more than 100 Fresh Mark employees working at the Salem meat processor who were subject to arrest for immigration violations. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement