Federal immigration authorities arrested more than 280 employees of a Texas company in what officials said was the biggest single workplace raid in a decade.
Workers' relatives came to the facility as word spread. "It's really sad and it makes a lot of people really angry and frustrated," the daughter of a detained worker said.
The raid was part of an ongoing investigation into complaints that the company may have knowingly hired people who are in the U.S. without authorization and that many of those workers were using fraudulent identification documents, the agency said. Relatives of workers came to the facility after word of the operation spread, some emotional and wondering about their loved ones,Anel Perez, the daughter of a worker who was been detained, told the station,"It's not fair. It's really sad and it makes a lot of people really angry and frustrated,"
Berger said that authorities were still vetting information and she did not have the nationalities, ages or any criminal backgrounds of those taken into custody.
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