Feds Raid Egg Company Featured in ABC News Report

One of the nation's biggest egg producers, which supplied eggs to all McDonald's restaurants west of the Mississippi River until undercover video aired by ABC News exposed alleged animal abuse and unsanitary conditions, has now been raided by federal immigration agents.

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Minnesota State Police took part in the Tuesday morning raid on the Litchfield, Minnesota facility of Sparboe Farms. Sparboe, the nation's fifth largest egg producer, has facilities in Iowa and Minnesota and is headquartered in Litchfield.

Shawn Neudauer, a spokesman for ICE, said the raid was "part of a larger criminal investigation," that eight men and two women had been arrested on "administrative immigration charges," and that two had been released. "The rest remain in custody pending review of their cases in light of the larger criminal investigation." Neudauer said no further information would be made available.
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