Audit leads dairy operation to fire 'around 10' illegal immigrants

ROB SCHULTZ | rschultz@madison.com | Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:17 pm

An audit by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to a large dairy operation near Evansville to recently terminate several employees who were found to be illegal immigrants.

Mike Larson, dairy manager of Larson Acres, said "around 10" illegal immigrants were fired from the operation over the past few weeks. He added that the fired employees were not detained by any law enforcement agencies.

"We had some people working here who gave us false identification and we had to let them go," he said.

ICE spokeswoman Gail Montenegro said the agency reviewed employment records at Larson Acres in September. "However, no arrests were made and no one was detained," she said in a statement.

Larson Acres, which completed an expansion in 2010, has 63 employees, Larson said. The operation has 2,900 adult cattle, of which 2,400 are milking cows.

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