LOS ANGELES — Seven immigration agents filed into a 7-Eleven store before dawn Wednesday, waited for
people to go through the checkout line and told arriving customers and a driver delivering beer to wait outside. A federal inspection was underway, they said.Within 20 minutes, they verified that the cashier had a valid green card and served notice on the
owner to produce hiring records in three days.The well-rehearsed scene, executed with quiet efficiency in Los Angeles' Koreatown, played out at about 100 7-Eleven stores in 17 states and the District of Columbia, a rolling operation that officials called the
largest immigration... |