Monday, 18 Aug 2025

Massive identity theft scheme led by illegal immigrants uncovered after raid at meatpacking plant

ICE has uncovered a massive identity theft scheme led by illegal immigrants and possibly tied to organized criminal networks following a workplace raid at a meatpacking plant in Omaha.


Massive identity theft scheme led by illegal immigrants uncovered after raid at meatpacking plant

According to an ICE statement, approximately 70 illegal aliens working at the plant were discovered to be using stolen Social Security numbers and identities to unlawfully obtain employment authorization, wages and benefits at the expense of over 100 victims. The statement said that the victims have faced "devastating financial, emotional and legal consequences" as a result of the identity theft.

While the arrests have sparked outrage from some in both the local community and nationally, ICE said the illegals' identity theft proves they were not innocent, hardworking members of society, as some have suggested.

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.

In Missouri, a full-time nursing student lost their college tuition assistance because it was fraudulently reported that they earned too much money due to an illegal alien at Glenn Valley Foods using their Social Security number.

"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."

"These victims aren't faceless statistics; they're real people who are being denied healthcare and have lost educational opportunities," added Zito.

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