Overview
- Footage from a September 4 operation at Nutrition Bar Confectioners in Cato, New York shows agents forcing open a locked women’s restroom and telling an occupant to pull up her pants.
- Federal documents state 57 workers were detained during the raid, which was conducted by HSI Syracuse with support from IRS, Border Patrol in Oswego, and ERO Syracuse.
- U.S. District Judge Brenda K. Sannes ruled that Argentina Juarez-Lopez’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated, bolstering defense challenges to the operation.
- Prosecutors said that by September 9, 52 detainees had been returned to their alleged countries of origin and five, including Juarez-Lopez, were charged with illegal reentry.
- Attorneys argue the warrants authorized only an employer document review, while ICE and federal prosecutors maintain the operation was lawful immigration enforcement.