The arrested workers are thought to be primarily from Guatemala. They are suspected of using stolen American identities to gain employment.
In an ICE news release, the agency said it executed search warrants at the four locations of the Fresh Mark meat company, based in Massilon. The arrests were made at the company’s Salem location, but raids were conducted at two locations in Massilon and one in Canton as well. As in ICE’s Sandusky raid earlier this month, where nearly 120 immigrant workers were arrested at garden centers in Sandusky, roughly 100 agents were involved in this action. They arrived with no prior notice to Fresh Mark.
Cleveland.com reported that the arrested workers were bused from Fresh Mark to the local ICE facility in Brooklyn Heights for processing. Via ICE, some will be held at detention facilities in Michigan and Ohio. Others will be deported immediately.
ICE reported that several individuals were processed and released from custody the same day, “as a result of humanitarian considerations.” (For comparison: In the Sandusky raids, 106 were detained and 13 were released.) The agency said that it expects the total number of arrests to climb even higher by the time the investigation concludes.
Fresh Mark is a family-owned company with more than 1,000 employees, via its website. It provides bacon, sausage, hot dogs and lunch meats to grocery stores, delis and stadiums across the country.
This article appears in Jun 20-26, 2018.
should the ICE be wearing clothes that ID them as police?? Seems ridiculous to me that an ICE agent is wearing anyting that ID’s them as a police officer when they are most certainly not police officers….
The ICE is just our very own gestapo at this point
Who knew that behind the Cleveland rock n roller scene was a deep concern for the border jumping illegals being used as cheap meat market and landscaping labor.
Does Scene magazine advocate hiring illegal immigrants? Does Scene have undocumented workers on their payroll.
The Nazi comparisons are fucking stupid. The Hitler thing lost it’s shock value a long time ago. We hate you for comparing our country to Nazi Germany in order to be edgy.
How many Fresh Mark managers were arrested? After all, those illegals came here for one reason, a job. Employment is their draw, the promise of a job, right? The day all employers are fined $50,000 per illegal in their employment will be the day that jobs for illegals will be denied out of fear of the fines to be paid if caught. At $50K each, the fine to Fresh Mark would be $7.3 million. If Fresh Mark is not fined, the chances are good that next week 146 illegals will be on the job having replaced those who were caught. The day these fines become punitive across the country will be the day you see a migration of all illegals back to where they came from or they will starve.
I know its a shock to you @Immigration Scene, but some of us actually care about other people.
If you hate the nazi comparisons, stop acting like fascists you dumbass!
Stop supporting concentration camps for children in the united states just because their parents wanted to come to this country.
Stop demonizing and dehumanizing people who don’t look like you.