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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Dozens of illegal immigrants arrested in last week's meatpacking plant raids have been released for humanitarian reasons pending immigration hearings, a government official said Friday.
About 100 have been released from detention centers, many to care for children or ailing relatives, since the Dec. 12 federal raids on Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in six states, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement spokesman Jamie Zuieback said. Many were released the day of the raids, she said.
She wouldn't specify what other criteria the agency used to determine whether workers should be released for humanitarian reasons.
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