ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS ARRESTED
Massive raids in multiple locations and States; 14 business owners arrested and warrents out on 3 more, and 133 employees arrested. Just in and around the town of O'Neill, NE, ICE hit a tomato hothouse, a potato-processor, a Mexican restaurant and Mexican grocer, and a cattle feedlot and a hog operation. Names of several businesses in the links.
The 17 owners will be charged with conspiracy to exploit illegal labor for profit, fraud and money laundering. Federal search warrants were served as far away as Las Vegas and Minnesota in connection with the conspiracy. Illegal workers brought to the area were required to pay a fee to cash their paychecks, have taxes deducted that were not paid to the government, and were coerced into remaining quiet about the criminal activity.
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