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How Suspected Illegal Aliens Escaped Immigration Raid
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We are gaining new insight into the immigration raid at a Fairfield poultry plant.

Federal agents pulled 161 suspected illegal aliens from Koch Foods Tuesday, but did not find all of them.


Family members of workers say those workers were able to hide from immigration agents inside Koch Foods during that raid.


Family members of several workers say illegal plant employees hid from immigration agents inside the plant for 12 hours during the raid.


The husband of Maria Mendez Gonzales was one of the workers hiding. She didn't know if he was in jail or being deported.


"That's what I thought all night, I didn't sleep," said Maria Mendez Gonzales, husband works at Koch Foods. "I just prayed, hoping God would help me."


Agents failed to find her husband and he's still in hiding, fearing he'll eventually be sent back home.


Maria and her husband are from Guatemala. With no job at home, she admits she snuck into the U.S., actually walking across the Arizona border.


She paid $2,000 for a ride to Cincinnati. Her husband was already here, and knew to go to the "chicken company" for work, Koch Foods.


There she says her husband presented an Ohio ID card and a fake social security card he bought for $150.


He's now been an employee at Koch for three years. He works for $8 an hour, with no health benefits.


Like many of the workers detained Tuesday, the risk of living here illegally is worth it for Maria, her husband and their young son.


In Guatemala, she lived in a mud hut. Here, they make enough to rent an apartment in North Fairmount.


"We don't feel anything," said Gonzales. "It's just God who takes us where we need to go."


Maria says her husband won't come back to Koch Foods, but will find another local company ready to hire him in a few days.


20 of the workers detained Tuesday are charged with forging documents.


Koch Foods says it has a strict policy regarding illegal immigrants, and has even asked the government to check its records, but the government did not act on the offer.
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ALL the meat packing and Chicken plants employ illegal Mexicans. Also the catfish farming enterprises. There are more Mexicans in Iowa and Illinois than in Northern Mexico. And ICE knows where everyone of them is hiding. Two years to decide that Koch is hiring illegals? When none of their workers speak english? Give me a break. This is another example of ICE's puny efforts to thwart public opinion on illegals. They make a few busts, but the INS keeps the Border open to massive entry thru thousands of issued work visas. These work visas are NEVER tracked after expiration. Hence, a constant flow of illegals via our corrupt Government. The INS needs to be investigated and sanctioned by congress.

I don't think we have enough investigators in the country to investigate all the people that need investigating. From the White House all the way down.
I don't blame ICE. I think they only get to do what they are allowed to do. If given a free hand they would probably do much more. Now that they are pulling 1,000 ICE off, it is only going to get worse.

[quote:1iac9v2o]Maria and her husband are from Guatemala. With no job at home, she admits she snuck into the U.S., actually walking across the Arizona border.


She paid $2,000 for a ride to Cincinnati. Her husband was already here, and knew to go to the "chicken company" for work, Koch Foods.

It sounds to me that she had no job before comming here and she stated there are no jobs at home . being able to pay 2000 dollars is with no job - how did she get 2000 dollars I wonder - ICE may want to search her home [/quote:1iac9v2o]