SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) -- To connect with NewsChannel 9 over Zoom, Hediberto Ramirez Perez had to get a new cell phone and find internet access at a nearby store.

Two weeks earlier, Ramirez Perez was working the manufacturing lines at Nutrition Bar Confectioners in Cato.

On September 4, the snack bar plant was raided by federal immigration agents.

Through his attorney, who translated, Perez said: "They were yelling and shouting and a lot of chaos around...They started taking people out from the break room one by one."

As a U.S. citizen who also worked at the plant, Ramirez Perez's wife was allowed to stay. She watched her husband get dragged away.

He never had a chance to show the same federal worth authorization card he showed NewsChannel 9, apparently clearing him for work eligibi

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