Workers say agents took them to Gillette

Claim they were returned after being processed

Carlos Escobedo spoke to a room of illegal immigrants with attorneys Deborah Gonzalez, left center, and Alex Isbell, left, at the Guatemalan Consulate in Providence, RI.

(Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff) Carlos Escobedo spoke to a room of illegal immigrants with attorneys Deborah Gonzalez, left center, and Alex Isbell, left, at the Guatemalan Consulate in Providence, RI.

By Maria Sacchetti

Globe Staff / January 12, 2010

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PROVIDENCE - Federal agents detained dozens of Guatemalan immigrants en route to shovel snow at Gillette Stadium last week, and then drove many of them back to the stadium to work, the immigrants said yesterday, giving their fullest account yet of the operation. (Full article: 979 words)