The 70 workers who were rounded up and detained during an immigration raid at a protein bar plant in northern Cayuga County have been sent out of state, according to family members and advocates for the workers.

In less than 48 hours, the workers went from the jobs and lives where they’d spent decades to a detention center at the Texas border, awaiting potential deportation.

Elizabeth Ramirez-Abrams said her husband, 46-year-old Hediberto Ramirez-Perez , called her around 11 a.m. Saturday to tell her he was in Texas. She said he and the others were flown there from Buffalo. No one is sure what detention center they are in, and an online system simply says they are in the custody of Customs and Border Patrol.

Ramirez-Abrams and her sisters had been searching for Ramirez-Perez, known

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