The Department of Homeland Security is still holding and processing several hundred workers grabbed in early-morning raids Tuesday — and finding some surprises.
Agents have charged at least 35 more detainees with criminal violations, according to DHS figures quoted in the Grand Island (Neb.) Independent. “More than 100 people nationwide have now been charged with criminal violations,” the paper reports this morning. On Wednesday, that number was 65.
DHS has not said how many of those charged were accused of identity theft.
Meanwhile, agents have also identified a number of legal workers they swept up in the raids, dubbed “Operation Wagon Train,” and held for days before releasing them. The United Food and Commercial Workers union has rented vans to pick up newly-released workers from government holding facilities and bring them back home.