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Nearly 100 people were arrested Tuesday morning at Koch Foods as part of an immigration raid led by federal immigration agents.

Just after 9 a.m., about 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended onto the Fairfield business at 4100 Port Union Road. The ICE agents were joined by Fairfield Police, Butler County Sheriff's deputies and commerce enforcement agents, said Richard Rocha, an ICE spokesman at the raid.

All entrances and exits at Koch were blocked during the raid.

ICE spokesman Greg Palmore called the bust a "targeted enforcement action." He said federal immigration agents are also conducting a targeted enforcement action on Koch Foods headquarters in Chicago.

"ICE agents are executing criminal search warrants," Palmore said.

Those arrested in Fairfield were handcuffed and loaded onto either one of three white school buses with bars or a tour bus with its windows blocked out, Rocha said.

Rocha said the immigration bust is the end result of a two year investigation