Immigration Agency Targets 7-Eleven Stores

Immigration officials raided nearly 100 7-Eleven stores across the country this morning checking the immigration status of store employees. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a pre-dawn raid on 7-Eleven stores across the nation, arresting 21 workers as a warning to employers who had mostly been tacitly allowed to employee undocumented aliens.

ICE agents dropped in on 98 7-Eleven stores in 17 states and the District of Columbia, in what the agency called the largest operation targeting an employer since President Trump took office in 2017.