Cops Arrested Hundreds In Iowa Over Immigration

Postville, Iowa (AHN) - At least 300 people were arrested, mostly over illegal identity theft and illegal immigration, by federal immigration agents in northeastern Iowa at the world's biggest meat processing plant.

According to local newspaper, Gannet, federal immigration authorities received numerous information about alleged illegal workers overstaying for the past two years at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville.

A former plant supervisor told Federal immigration that the company was allegedly accepting and hiring illegal workers from Mexico, Eastern Europe and Guatemala, who were in the U.S. illegally.

The source said the plant was also running a metamphetamine laboratory and workers were bringing weapons inside the plant.

Some 40 workers were released on "humanitarian reason" after being arrested because they were caregivers.

The U.S. Attorney Matt Dummermuth said the plant raid is the largest operation in the history of Iowa.