Article published July 17, 2002
INS detains 63
FBI and INS agents detain suspected illegal immigrants at a business in Carson City's Industrial park on Tuesday morning.
F.T. Norton
In what's being called the largest operation at a single site in Northern Nevada, 63 employees of a Carson City manufacturer were arrested Tuesday morning for being in the United States illegally.
Immigrations and Naturalization Services converged on Stonewear Inc., in the 2000 block of Lockheed Way, at 8:30 a.m.With the assistance of the Carson City Sheriff's Department, FBI, U.S. Customs, Nevada Division of Investigation and the Nevada Highway Patrol, immigration agents secured two buildings which house the stone fabrication factory, said Gregory White, supervisory special agent of the investigation division of INS.
All but four of the people arrested during the sweep are Mexican nationals who live in Carson City and Dayton, White said.
They were charged with various administrative violations such as illegal entry of and reentry of the country unlawfully.
White said initially 73 people were detained, but the employer showed passports for 10 of them.
The remaining 63 were taken to the Washoe County Jail, where they are being held pending their deportation."A large percentage of them will be removed from the country through what we call voluntary return," White explained. "If they have no criminal history they have a right to a hearing.....
