SPRINGFIELD -- Six more employees of George’s Processing plant near Butterfield are charged with lying about their citizenship to gain their jobs.  Investigators say an immigration judge ordered one of the men deported almost six years ago but he never left, while the others have been deported but came back into this country.

   The charges in U.S. District Court in Springfield follow a raid by federal immigration agents on Tuesday.  Agents detained 136 workers who they think might be illegal immigrants.  Some employees were jailed, while others were released to take care of children or other family members, with orders to appear before an immigration judge on a certain date.  Previously, prosecutors charged 13 people as part of the two-year investigation that led to the raid.

   The people charged on Friday are Elias Hernandez-Tevalan, 41, Enrique Lopez-Cristobal, 38, Oscar Deldago-Paxtor, 29, and Bladimiro Gomez-Garcia, 32, all of whom are citizens of Guatemala, and Armando Verde-Villanueva, 23, and Juan Manuel Rivera-Lucio, 34, both of whom are citizens of Mexico.

  Hernandez-Tevalan is charged with falsely claiming to be a citizen of the United States in order to gain employment. According to an affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Hernandez-Tevalan was ordered removed from the United States in absentia on Oct. 4, 2001, but failed to depart.

   Lopez-Cristobal, Deldago-Paxtor, Gomez-Garcia, Vered-Villanueva and Rivera-Lucio are each charged with re-entering the United States after having been deported. Lopez-Cristobal was removed as an aggravated felon, the affidavit says.

  The raid was a joint operation of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Social Security Administration, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.