NewzThe sprawling snack-food factory in upstate New York appeared to be closed when a small army of immigration officers arrived after 9 a.m. Following a brief discussion of whether to force their way inside, a manager opened the front door. Over the next several hours, body cameras were running as federal authorities from several agencies made 57 arrests, debated which files to seize and when to release employees who were U.S.
They also searched for anyone in hiding. The footage from September 2025 shows the raid at the Nutrition Bar Confectioners plant in Cato, New York, a town of 2,500 people east of Syracuse, and offers a rare glimpse inside a workplace immigration sweep. The Associated Press analyzed the video, which was part of a lawsuit filed Thursday that accuses authorities of overstepping their search warrants.
The officers ordered a manager to announce their presence over loudspeakers while they entered the building and caught employees on the production line, in the warehouse and a few in the bathroom. Officers covered all exits while others swept the interior, including homing in on locked doors. Male officers encountered a locked bathroom and began shouting instructions in broken Spanish at female employees through the door, demanding that they come out.
After about 10 seconds, officers broke through the door. One woman was outside of a stall and another in the stall. A male officer peered through a locked stall door, and his body cam video revealed a woman sitting on the toilet.
Come out of the bathroom,” he told her. I can’t come out like this, naked!” she replied. Investigators interviewed the general manager and said they were looking into hiring practices and potential fraudulent documents.
Inside and outside the building, officers checked every office, storage room and hallway for anyone who was hiding. Employees were lined up and separated into groups of U.S. citizens and potential noncitizens.
Summary from source