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Pedro Camacho

ICE Deports Six Migrants After Raiding Texas Bakery, Charges Owners with 'Harboring Aliens': 'I Knew This Would Happen One Day'

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (Credit: Photo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images)

Federal immigration authorities have deported six undocumented workers and charged the owners of a Texas bakery with "harboring aliens" after a raid on their business, as U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen L. Betancourt put it. The owners, Leonardo Baez and Nora Alicia Avila-Guel, are accused of knowingly employing and housing workers without legal authorization to work in the United States.

According to a preliminary hearing held on Friday it was revealed that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted a worksite enforcement action at Abby's Bakery in Los Fresnos on February 12, following a tip received in December.

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