ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 News has learned exclusive further details involving those immigration raids at a popular St. Peters buffet.

On Monday, we reported how two men behind Golden Apple Buffet intend to reopen as soon as they’re released from federal custody this week.

Now, the immigration attorney who represents some of the detained workers says all of his clients are in the United States legally.

“These people did nothing wrong,” attorney Jim Hacking said. “They followed the rules. They shouldn’t have been taken into custody.”

Hacking represents seven of the workers detained in the raids we first told you about on Sept. 3.

“…dragged them out of the shower, dragged them out of bed,” Hacking said, “and checked their papers either on site or certainly down at the Robert A. Young building,

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