More than 40 people detained in ICE raid at Central NY factory: Gov. Hochul ‘outraged’

Cato, N.Y. – More than 40 adults were taken in a federal raid of a food manufacturing plant in Cato Thursday, including the parents of at least a dozen school-age children, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Hochul issued a statement Thursday night that she is outraged by the raid at the factory by federal agents, some masked, which she described as cruel.

The immigration raid started at about 9 a.m. at the Nutrition Bar Confectioners factory at 12351 Route 34, according to an employee. The family-owned business, founded in 1978, makes specialty nutrition bars…

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