Immigration officers swarmed a restaurant late Friday afternoon in South Park, escorting two employees out in a raid that left the staff, the manager said, deeply shaken.

Usually Buona Forchetta has customers waiting out front, lined up to enter the popular Beech Street restaurant.

Instead, after an hour-and-15 minute operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the jittery crowd wasn’t waiting for Italian food.

On the street, on the sidewalks, large and small groups talked about what had just happened. It was a crowd of curious, mad, disappointed people joined by television crews with cameras.

Both the main restaurant and their smaller place next door were raided and witnesses said when the contingent of officers attempted to remove two employees, they encountered a hostile respo

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