Immigrants working on construction worksites were detained by federal authorities in Montgomery Thursday, advocates reported.

At least five construction workers from a D.R. Horton home building site were detained by U.S. Customs and Enforcement agents.

“It is my understanding that they were looking for a single individual and they let everyone else go at first. And then after having interactions with some people, they followed these folks and detained them on the highway,” said Luis Eduardo Robledo, an organizer from Birmingham Migra Watch.

The group formed last month to allow volunteers to monitor and publicize immigrant detentions.

Robledo said the officers arrived at the work site at about 10 a.m. and detained about five workers several hours later after they drove away from the wo

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