U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Friday stormed 11 El
Balazo restaurants around the Bay Area, arresting 63 illegal immigrants -
and drawing the outrage of immigration advocates who had marched the
previous day to call for the legalization of undocumented workers.
The raids began at 10:30 Friday morning in San Francisco, San Ramon,
Lafayette, Concord, Pleasanton and Danville and involved 62 people from
Mexico and one from Guatemala.
Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the immigration agency, called the arrests "a
targeted enforcement action" that is part of a continuing criminal
investigation she couldn't discuss further.
Immigration officials photographed, fingerprinted and interviewed all of
those arrested. Ten women and one man were quickly released on humanitarian
grounds, including pregnancy and medical concerns, pending future
immigration proceedings, Kice said.
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