Arguello, with help from a human smuggler, entered the country illegally from Guatemala on Dec. 11, 2005. She arrived in Postville by herself.
Arguello said she started working at Agriprocessors on a Tuesday, hiring day at the plant, considered the largest kosher meat-processing plant in the world. Arguello said she had already bought fake work papers and an identification card from someone in Postville who specialized in producing the documents. The fake documents said she was 22.
"You could tell we weren't 18," Arguello said in Spanish last week. "They probably knew. We didn't look old enough."
Arguello said she presented herself at the human resources department and submitted her fake paperwork.
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