U.S. judge sides with women held in Nebraska ICE operation

OMAHA, Neb. —

Two women, arrested in the Glenn Valley Foods ICE operation on June 10 , have been ordered to be released from detention.

They've been held in the Lincoln County Jail since the mid-June.

U.S. District Court of Nebraska judge Joseph Bataillon wrote that the detention of Floribertha Mayo Anicasio and Yanier Garcia Jimenez, both from Mexico, violated their due process rights.

According to their defense attorneys, both women came to the U.S. from Mexico fleeing violence; Mayo Anicasio in 1999 and Garcia Jimenez in 2019. Their attorneys allege both women have families in Omaha and, along with being financial providers, are also caretakers.

The Homeland Security Investigations operation at Glenn Valley Foods was the result of an investigation into stolen social security num