Human Impact Project

ICE's Fugitive Operations Team arrested 44 people in a five-day operation across central Nebraska — 25 in Lexington, 12 in Grand Island, 2 in Broken Bow, and one each in Cozad, Gibbon, Hastings, Kearney, and North Platte. Twenty-eight were fugitives, 16 were immigration violators encountered during targeted arrests, and 10 had prior criminal convictions.

A worker at Glenn Valley Foods was convicted and sentenced to 14 months in prison for wielding a box cutter while attempting to resist an immigration arrest during the June 10, 2025 ICE raid.

Following the Glenn Valley Foods raid on June 10, 2025, federal authorities charged one woman worker with identity fraud. The woman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in prison. Despite ICE's initial claims that the raid uncovered 'massive identity theft,' only this single worker has been charged with identity fraud crimes as of one year later.

Luis Mejía, a 20-year-old Nebraska native raised in South Omaha, was at work at Glenn Valley Foods when ICE conducted a raid on June 10, 2025. Immigration officers asked him to prove U.S. citizenship; after looking him up in their system, they cleared him to leave. Mejía's undocumented mother was among those detained and taken to Lincoln County Detention Center four hours away. Mejía and his older brother were forced to provide for their two younger siblings while their mother was detained for an unknown duration, unable to contact her for several days.

Guadalupe Cabrera Mejia, a Glenn Valley Foods employee, was detained during the June 10, 2025 ICE raid and charged with felony misrepresentation of a Social Security number. Federal prosecutors allege she used the Social Security number of a U.S. citizen who had previously reported identity theft to the Internal Revenue Service. At her initial appearance in federal court, the judge ordered her to remain behind bars pending trial, and ICE placed a detainer on her as a precursor to deportation. A subsequent multi-agency investigation found that the raid, which led to 70 arrests at the plant, uncovered a broader identity theft scheme in which workers used stolen Social Security numbers to obtain wages, health benefits and employment authorization, affecting more than 100 victims across states including Pennsylvania, Texas, Colorado, Missouri and California.

Osmar Lorenzo-Genchi, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and employee at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, was arrested during an ICE raid on June 10, 2025. After ICE officers confirmed his citizenship and released him, he joined protesters blocking law enforcement vehicles from leaving the scene. He struck a vehicle's mirror with his fists, bent a windshield wiper, and shattered a passenger-side window with a rock. He was convicted and sentenced to 22 months in prison for assaulting and impeding federal officers with a dangerous weapon. His mother, also a Glenn Valley Foods employee, was detained during the same raid and remained in custody at Lincoln County Jail. The raid resulted in the detention of 76 employees at the meatpacking plant.

In June 2025, ICE conducted a raid on Glenn Valley Foods, a meatpacking plant in Omaha, arresting 76 workers in the largest worksite operation in Nebraska since the start of the Trump administration. Federal authorities said the raid followed a three-month investigation into workers allegedly using stolen identities from U.S. citizens to gain employment, and the investigation remains ongoing. About a dozen workers have been deported or transferred to out-of-state custody, while 63 remain in immigration custody at the Lincoln County Detention Center. Seven people, including four protesters, have been charged in connection with the raid, while most detained workers face immigration proceedings.

An 11-year-old autistic girl was placed in foster care in Nebraska after her father was picked up by ICE in June 2025. The girl was separated from her parent and placed in the custody of the state.

Nyo Myint, a man from Myanmar who lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, was taken into ICE custody in February 2025 after being released on probation in 2023, then placed on a July 2025 flight to South Sudan along with seven other men after weeks of detention at a U.S. military base in Djibouti. His former defense attorney, Nathan Sohriakoff, said Myint did not speak English, communicated through interpreters, and appeared cognitively limited but not incompetent. On February 25, 2026, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an 81-page ruling finding that the government's third-country deportation program violated due process and the Convention Against Torture, carrying out removals with less than 16 hours' notice and preventing detainees from contacting lawyers or appearing in court.

A 33-year-old South Sudanese man was released on discretionary parole from Nebraska prison custody on May 2, 2025, and arrested by immigration authorities six days later. He was one of eight men, from six different countries, placed on a deportation flight to South Sudan on July 4, 2025, after being held for weeks at a U.S. military base in Djibouti. On February 25, 2026, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an 81-page ruling declaring the entire third-country deportation program, including his removal, unlawful, finding the government violated due process and the Convention Against Torture by giving detainees less than 16 hours' notice. He represented himself in his appeals.