A federal immigration operation Tuesday at a St. Paul manufacturing facility resulted in more than a dozen arrests, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A spokesperson confirmed on Thursday that 14 people were arrested on alleged immigration violations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents two days earlier at Bro-Tex in St. Paul.

City officials say most of the people who were detained do not have a criminal record. The Homeland Security spokesperson says one person had been previously charged with domestic abuse and another "illegally" reentered the U.S.

"What they initially reported as a targeted criminal enforcement action was in fact an identity-based raid on people who had done nothing but show up for work that day," St. Paul City Council Member Molly Cole

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