聯邦探員突查俄亥俄州園藝店逮捕114名非法移民

U.S. immigration agents raided two Ohio garden stores Tuesday and arrested 114 workers believed to be undocumented immigrants, for Alleged identity theft.

It was the largest such sting by Homeland Security and immigration agents in recent years.

The agents carried out raids at two separate locations of Corso's Flower and Garden

Center — one in Sandusky and the other in Castalia.

Along with the arrests, agents carried out boxes of what a spokesman called "a lot of documentary evidence" from one of the stores.

The investigation into Corso's began in October when agents arrested a woman that they called a "document vendor" — someone who sells stolen identity documents to legal and illegal would-be workers. The suspected vendor led investigators to Corso's.

Corso's is not facing any criminal charges but is still under investigation. An immigration official said the garden center chain was obviously unaware it was hiring workers with falsified documents.美國移民官員星期二突擊檢查了俄亥俄州的兩家園藝商店，逮捕114人。據信他們是無證移民，並被指盜竊他人身份。

這是國土安全部和移民局官員近年來最大規模的突擊檢查。

被突擊檢查的兩家店是科爾索花卉園藝中心的兩家分店，一家在桑達斯基，一家在卡斯塔利亞。

除逮捕人之外，移民官員還從其中一家園藝店搬走了若干箱當局發言人所稱的“很多文件證據”。

美國聯邦官員去年10月逮捕了一名婦女。他們稱她爲“身份證件販子”，專門把偷盜來的身份證明賣給合法和非法勞工。根據這個“販賣身份證明”嫌疑人提供的線索，調查人員查到了科爾索花卉園藝中心。

科爾索花卉園藝中心沒有受到任何刑事指控，但是一直在被調查。一名移民調查官員說，科爾索花卉園藝中連鎖店看來對所僱人員持有虛假身份證明並不知情。