ICE targets poultry workers in Lancaster County, arrests 17 since August

Federal immigration authorities have arrested 17 employees of Melhorn Sales Service and Trucking in and around Mount Joy Borough since Aug. 21, the borough’s police chief confirmed Thursday.

Phone and email requests to Melhorn for comment were not immediately returned Thursday.

Each of the traffic stops and arrests performed by ICE took place in the early morning, roughly between 4:30 and 5 a.m., Mount Joy Borough police Chief Robert Goshen said. No borough police were involved in the arrests, Goshen said…

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