Feds found more than two dozen minors working in Ohio poultry plant

Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.

The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”

Marisa Darden, a lawyer representing Gerber, had no comment when asked about minors working at the plant. She told NBC News, “We don’t have any comment at this time. We are cooperating, we just can’t talk about it.”

Local immigration advocates say agents from Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI surrounded the plant in the early evening of Oct. 4 and shut down traffic into and out of the plant.