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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Nebraska issues a news release with additional information on Tuesday's ICE raid in Omaha.
"U.S. Attorney for the federal district of Nebraska Lesley Woods announces it was a federal civil search warrant that was executed Tuesday at an Omaha business in relation to a Take Back America Task Force worksite enforcement operation.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with other federal law enforcement partners, entered the Glenn Valley Foods facility in search of workers who were not authorized to work in the United States."
The statement goes on to say, "HSI performed an audit of Glenn Valley Foods’ employee I-9 Forms to verify the authenticity and validity of employee identity documents.
The audit revealed a large number of suspected fraudulent identification documents or documents that did not authorize certain identified employees to legally work in the United States.
The audit also revealed that multiple identities of United States citizens were being fraudulently used by workers at that location, and numerous victim complaints were received at HSI in connection with those stolen identities prior to the enforcement operation.
During the operation, HSI encountered approximately 76 unlawfully present aliens at the facility. These workers were using Social Security numbers that had not been issued to them.
HSI referred several criminal allegations to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska.
Among the criminal allegations referred are allegations of fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, assaults on federal officers and damage to federal property, illegal re-entry of previously deported aliens, and other criminal concerns.
Possible charging determinations have not been made at this time as this is an active and ongoing investigation."
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