By Doug Cunningham

The United Food and Commercial Workers is suing the government to block mass workplace immigration raids the union says violated the rights of thousands of U.S. citizen workers. UFCW spokesman Scott Frotman.

[Frotman]: "They held and detained U.S. citizens for hours on end, depriving them of access to attorneys, depriving them of access to bathrooms, depriving them of access to phones to call their families."

The UFCW wants an injunction blocking the kinds of workplace immigration raids that happened at Swift & Company in December, when more than 10,000 documented U.S. citizens were forcibly held for hours at work.

[Frotman 2]: "Work is not a crime and workers are not criminals. As workers we don't leave our constitutional rights at the plant gate."