A total of 40 workers, presumably undocumented immigrants, and the owners of a Mexican restaurant chain were arrested Wednesday in raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
At daybreak, ICE and IRS agents carried out synchronized raids on 15 restaurants of the Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler chain, 14 of them in Arizona and one in California. Vincent Picard, the ICE spokesman in Arizona, told Efe that 40 workers were arrested in the operation.
“Some of them might serve as witnesses in the case,” he said.