Over 100 Missouri poultry plant workers arrested as illegal
Over 100 Missouri poultry plant workers arrested as illegal aliens
Associated Press - May 22, 2007 4:44 PM ET
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Federal immigration agents arrested more than 100 workers as suspected illegal immigrants in a raid on a southwest Missouri poultry plant Tuesday.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it served a federal criminal search warrant at the George's processing plant in Butterfield in Barry County, about 60 miles southwest of Springfield.
Pete Baird of the US immigration office for Missouri and Kansas said the number of people detained made it a large operation for the region.
Most of those arrested were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Those arrested will be taken to detention facilities in Wichita, Kansas; Kansas City and St. Louis.
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