ICE arrests 51 workers at DeCoster egg farms

Carolyn Hileman* | September 16, 2007

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Fifty-one workers were arrested during an immigration raid at six DeCoster egg farms in Wright County. Those farms are where agents have conducted several other raids in recent years. Tim Counts is spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He says the workers, most of them from Mexico, have been transported to various detention facilities in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and elsewhere. A judge will decide their fate at deportation hearings in Omaha, Nebraska. Federal agents conducted the 2.5 hour raid yesterday. Counts said some of the workers, including some juveniles and parents, were released and told to appear for their scheduled hearing.

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