Immigration raid targets Smithfield Foods

Carolyn Hileman* | August 24, 2007 

Filed Under Immigration

By Kristin Collins, Staff WriterFederal immigration enforcement officials are conducting an ongoing raid in the counties surrounding the Smithfield Foods pork slaughterhouse in Bladen County. Officials at the plant said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials took some workers out of the plant at 4 a.m., and that arrests have continued in neighborhoods in four counties. Twenty to 30 people have been arrested so far in the ongoing raid, ICE spokesman Richard Rocha said this afternoon. Rocha said those being arrested are suspected of identity theft.

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