Article: 50 Lindon workers nabbed in federal immigration raid

Thursday night at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Orem, Reina Isabel-Alvarado wiped tears from her cheeks and rubbed her hand roughly over her eyes.

Her husband was arrested earlier in the day, one of more than 50 people taken away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a raid at a Lindon manufacturing plant.

"I don't know what is going to happen to my husband. I don't know what is going to happen to our family," Isabel-Alvarado said in Spanish. "Our lives are in their (ICE's) hands."

The federal raid targeted Universal Industrial Sales Inc., which manufactures a variety of highway products, such as guard rails, bridge rails and sign structures.

Employee Jose Luis Uribe, 21, who ...

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