ICE arrested 14 people on immigration violations in a raid at a St. Paul warehouse this week, the federal agency said Thursday.

Immigrant groups said Wednesday that they’d confirmed two people were detained and attorneys were working to determine if anyone else was taken into custody.

A statement from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson late Thursday was the first official confirmation of the number of people arrested.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s HSI and other federal law enforcement agents carried out a search warrant Tuesday morning at Bro-Tex Inc. on Hampden Avenue near University Avenue in the St. Anthony neighborhood.

Bro-Tex’s website says they’ve been manufacturing and converting cloth and paper wiping products since 1923.

Of the people arrested, one h

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