Homeland Security agents detain 22 for immigration violations in raids of Lincoln, NE, restaurants

Twenty-two people were detained Thursday in the capital city as part of a criminal investigation conducted by Homeland Security agents.
They were detained for immigration violations unrelated to the criminal probe.

The raids, conducted with the help of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, were carried out at multiple locations across Lincoln. Neudauer declined to identify the locations of the raids, but the Lincoln Journal Star reported that one happened at a Mexican restaurant ... called ‘Mazatlan’. No one answered the phone at Mazatlan or El Toro, another restaurant owned by the same family.

“The incarceration of these workers is yet another example of the Trump administration’s cruel war on immigrants, which continues to hurt families nationwide,” said Rose Godinez, legal and policy counsel at the ACLU. “We are disappointed that Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner chose to divert local resources to facilitate this federal action targeting workers because that decision does not advance our shared public safety goals in our community.”

Neudauer said the raids were similar to a much larger operation in O’Neill in August, when more than 130 people were detained. The ACLU of Nebraska, which called the raids “unnecessary,” also said the raids targeted restaurants in the city.

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