While Omaha print and television reporters stood outside the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant on Tuesday as federal agents searched for workers with improper immigration documents, a camera crew from a Chicago-based news service accompanied officials inside.

Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided the food packaging plant and transported a busload of workers from the plant to an unknown destination. The raid was documented by NewsNation, an American cable news network owned by Nexstar Media Group. (snip)

Video from the NewsNation purports to show workers attempting to avoid arrest by hiding, including in walk-in freezers with subzero temperatures. The report said medical personnel from the Omaha Fire Department were asked "to respond and check individuals for health and safety concerns."

One man barricaded himself in a wall compartment and pulled a box cutter on agents when they attempted to remove him, according to the NewsNation report, leading to charges of assault on a federal officer.

“My biggest issue is: why us?” Hartmann said. “We do everything by the book.”

The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system “is broken.”

“I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?” Hartmann said. “This is your system, run by the government. And you’re raiding me because your system is broken?”