A federal audit at Glenn Valley Foods this spring found that of 177 employees at the plant, 107 were suspected of working with either fraudulent or inadequate documentation, according to a federal court affidavit. That’s what ultimately prompted the federal raid at the Omaha meatpacking plant on June 10 and the arrest and detention of more than 70 workers.

As more details begin to emerge about the raid that has drawn protests from immigration advocates, the operation offers a window into the means and tactics federal authorities are using as they try to meet President Donald Trump’s goal of deporting 3,000 undocumented people per day. An affidavit related to one of the first criminal cases coming out of the raid detailed the results of a Department of Homeland Security audit of the employment documentation for workers at the plant — the basis for the subsequent federal civil search warrant and raid.

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