inside immigration raid at Cato factory as agents bust into bathrooms, sort workers

Federal agents in military-style tactical gear filmed their actions as they stormed a Cato nutrition bar plant in September, ordering dozens people off the production floor, kicking in bathrooms and herding people into a hot break room.

The videos, made public in a federal court filing, confirm what witnesses told syracuse.com in interviews after the Sept. 4 immigration raid on the Nutrition Bar Confectioners plant: Agents lined up Latino workers and released people they said were U.S. citizens. They questioned and detained 57 people, including people who said only that they wanted a lawyer.

The videos also show the fear and apprehension of the workers in their last moments of freedom in the United States.

Many workers were sent to detention centers around the country and deported less than 72 hours later. At least 21 people were separated from children, including three under the age of 2, court records show.

The raid on the Cato plant is the largest in Upstate New York since January, when President Donald Trump t