An immigration raid at a Texas bakery led to the owners of the business being found guilty of harboring illegal aliens.
The two owners of Abby’s Bakery and Dulce's Café in Los Fresnos face up to 10 years in federal prison and may possibly lose their own residency status when sentenced.
'I believe these laws were supposed to target international criminal organizations, stash houses, human trafficking.'
A federal jury deliberated for about three hours before finding 56-year-old Leonardo Baez-Lara and 46-year-old Alicia Avila-Guel guilty of two counts of harboring aliens and conspiracy to harbor aliens. Baez-Lara and Avila-Guel are legal permanent residents and have been running the bakery since 2012.
The raid was conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Inve