ICE claims it was conducting a criminal federal search warrant to rescue victims of human trafficking during an operation at two El Toro Loco restaurants Wednesday.
On Wednesday, agents from ICE and Homeland Security Investigations made several arrests at two El Toro Loco restaurants in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas.
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“ICE was carrying out a criminal federal search warrant to rescue victims of human trafficking,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Friday to KSHB 41 News.
According to Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation, a Kansas City area-based advocacy group, as many as 12 people were taken into custody late Wednesday morning and early Wednesday afternoon at the two locations.
The group said Thursday that three of the people taken into custody have since been released…