Site of '07 immigration raid to close

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - A New Bedford leather-goods factory raided in 2007 by immigration agents will close.

Alliant Techsystems, a Minneapolis-based military contractor, said Friday that the factory, which employs more than 300, mostly Latino workers, will shut down by July 31.

Federal agents raided the plant and arrested 361 undocumented workers in 2007. The factory's owner sold the business to Eagle Industries soon after.

Eagle Industries, based in Fenton, Mo., was acquired by ATK in March.

ATK said the factory was operating well below capacity. But U.S. Rep. Barney Frank called the closure "absolute corporate savagery" and said it makes ATK "unfit" to continue as a U.S. contractor.