Despite detaining hundreds of people in Michigan accused of being in the country illegally, federal authorities have yet to indict a business owner accused of hiring such workers.

A former federal prosecutor says such cases are tough and can take time, suggesting going after people allegedly unauthorized to be in the U.S. is easier.

A little after noon on Aug. 3, a 32-year-old man from Honduras accidentally drove onto the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. When he turned around, immigration officials stopped him. He told them he was “on his way home from a construction job he had just completed and traveled onto the bridge to Canada by mistake.”

He was charged with entering the country illegally and will likely be deported . Yet federal prosecutors have not charged his employer , or an

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