SALEM, Ohio -- ICE arrested more than 100 undocumented immigrants Tuesday afternoon at a Northeast Ohio-based meat packing plant.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's and Homeland Security agents executed a search warrant about 4 p.m. at the Fresh Mark, a meat processing plant, and arrested more than 100 employees for immigration violations, according to an ICE news release.

The employees were arrested at the meat supplier's Salem location. Search warrants were also executed for documents at the Fresh Mark's two locations in Massillon on Cloverleaf Street and South way Street, authorities said.

Investigators searched a fourth location in the 1600 block of Harmont Avenue North East in Canton, officials said.

Investigators said Fresh Mark hired undocumented immigrants at its processing and packaging plants, and many of them were using fake identities belonging to U.S. citizens, according to a statement from Homeland Security. Agents have been investigating Fresh Mark for a year, officials said.

"Unlawful employment is one of the key magnets drawing illegal aliens across our borders," Homeland Security special agent Steve Francis said in a press release statement. "Businesses who knowingly harbor and hire illegal aliens as a business model must be held accountable for their actions."

The 100 people who were arrested will be held in facilities in Michigan and Ohio as they await removal proceedings, authorities said. Some of the employees may be released on humanitarian grounds, such as health concerns or the well-being of family members.

Agents were seen late Tuesday night escorting people from three white buses to inside of an ICE facility in Brooklyn Heights to be processed. Dozens of boxes and file cabinets were being unloaded from a midsize Uhaul in the building's parking lot.

Veronica Dahlberg, executive director of Latino advocacy group HOLA Ohio, said majority of the people arrested were from Guatemala.

"Don't let anybody tell you this is about enforcing the law," she said. "This is about decimating the Latino community."

Relatives of those arrested in Tuesday's raid can call the 24-hour detainee locator number to ask questions about the deportation process. The hotline is available in English or Spanish and is at 888-351-4024.

Buses carrying at least 100 people who were arrested were in the parking lot of a ICE facility in Brooklyn Heights following a Tuesday afternoon raid.

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