Overview
- Agents arrived mid-morning at the Cambridge Street business and detained nine employees while they were on the job, according to the co-owner and manager.
- Witnesses reported a large show of force, with more than a dozen vehicles—up to 17 by one count—surrounding the site and blocking entrances.
- The manager said those taken included people with legal work authorization who could not access identification stored in lockers before being removed.
- ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not answer questions about the charges, the detainees’ whereabouts, or the legal basis for the operation.
- Local officials and immigrant advocates condemned the raid, reported that three of those taken are relatives and identified the group as local Guatemalans, and they linked the action to intensified enforcement following a September operation that detained more than 1,400 people statewide.