Authorities arrested Thursday 2 supervisors from a kosher
meatpacking plant in
According to The New York Times, prosecutors said that Juan
Carlos Guerrero Espinoza and Martin De la Rosa Loera were arrested on criminal
immigration charges. They worked at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville. The
two supervisors helped illegal immigrants to work at the plant. Apparently
authorities were searching for a third man who was believed to be the plant
manager. Hosam Amara, 43, was a floor manager and had more authority that the other two men.
The arrest happened after federal authorities conducted an
immigration raid on May 12. It was the largest immigration raid at a single
workplace in the history of
Martin De la Rosa Loera was in charge of the plant’s poultry
kill facility and Juan Carlos Guerrero Espinoza was in charge of the beef kill
and he is a
Agriprocessors is the country’s biggest producer of kosher meat and his owner is Aaron Rubashkin.
Most of the workers who were arrested were from
Scott Frotman, a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union said authorities had to dig deeper and find all the guilty persons.
“What about the allegations of worker abuse? Does anyone really believe that these low-level supervisors acted alone without the knowledge, or even the direction, of the Rubashkins and other senior management?” said Scott Frotman, according to The New York Times.
The two supervisors were in the custody of