Left: Glenn Valley Foods, a meat packaging company that was raided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Omaha, Neb. And Right: ICE agents make arrests at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska (ICE and Margery A. Beck)
Another ICE representative told Fox News Digital that the illegal aliens who were apprehended at Glenn Valley Foods were behind the crime and that "some may have used organized criminal networks" to carry out the crime.
The representative said that the investigation is still ongoing and that the exact number of individuals impacted is still unknown.
The ICE spokesperson pointed to a few examples of those victimized by the apprehended illegals’ identity theft scheme.
The spokesperson said a disabled person in Texas, who was unable to work, struggled to get their Social Security disability payments because an illegal alien was fraudulently using their identity and earning wages at Glenn Valley Foods.
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Many of the 70 people detained Wednesday may now face additional federal charges, including fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents; assaulting a federal officer; resisting arrest; illegal reentry; and/or misuse of social security numbers, ICE said. (ICE)
"There have been individuals who have gone on the record recently referring to the identity thieves we arrested last week as ‘good, hardworking, and honest,’" he said. "These so-called honest workers have caused an immeasurable amount of financial and emotional hardship for innocent Americans. If pretending to be someone you aren’t in order to steal their lives isn’t blatant, criminal dishonesty, I don’t know what is."
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"These victims aren’t faceless statistics; they’re real people who are being denied healthcare and have lost educational opportunities," added Zito.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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