BUTTERFIELD, Mo. -- The day after a federal raid at a chicken processing plant found 11 dozen possible illegal immigrants, a single mother described the raid and explained why she is in the country illegally.

  Immigration Officers released numbers on Wednesday of how many people they arrested while serving a warrant at George's Processing plant in Butterfield, south of Monett.

   They now say they apprehended 136 people, although they released 31 for what they called humanitarian reasons.  Most of the people released are like Magda Reyes, who says she hopes people don’t call her a criminal.

  Only to work -- that's why 24-year-old Reyes says, two years ago, she crossed the Arizona desert three months pregnant with her first daughter.  Reyes doesn’t speak much English, and the pastor of her church helped translate as we asked her what happened during the raid.

  “She began to see people coming and coming and coming -- officers -- so she began to run and try to be in a place where most of the chickens are cleaned, trying to figure out what to do,” the pastor said.

  Reyes worked cleaning and inspecting chickens at George's, a job she and the others were scared to lose.

  “Were there a lot of people trying to hide?” she was asked.

  “Yes, there were a lot of people trying to hide.”

  She says her emotions have now turned to sadness.

  “More than anything I am sad because, in a matter of seconds. I lost my job.  People that I care for, I don't know if I'll see them again.  I don't know what will happen to them,” said Reyes.

  Even though federal agents freed Reyes to take care of her children, she doesn't know what her future holds.  She says, in Mexico, you need lots of money and lots of influence to get a legal visa -- and she has neither.

  “All we try to do is work and have a decent life and, if people realize that, maybe the perspective would change a little bit.  We are not criminal.  We are just normal people trying to get basic needs fulfilled,” she said.

  Even though Reyes was released, she still has to report for a deportation hearing.