Cato, N.Y. - Owners of a food manufacturing plant raided by over 50 federal agents and law enforcement officials Thursday said they were shocked and alarmed by the raid.

Federal agents, some masked and wearing bullet-proof vests, swept in and took away about 70 of the 150 people working at the Nutrition Bar Confectioners plant in Cato, according to Jeff, Lenny, and Mark Schmidt Jr., three brothers who own the business.

Nothing like this has ever happened in the nearly 50 years the Schmidt family has operated the business, they said in an interview Friday.

“We feel terrorized, there is no explanation,” said Lenny Schmidt.

About 9 a.m. Thursday, the agents with US. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies raided the factory at 12351 Route 34 that pumps out hundreds of t

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