CHARLOTTE - Nine workers at an Italian restaurant have been arrested on immigration charges after federal officials got information about undocumented employees, The Charlotte Observer reported Friday.

U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents arrested the workers at an Olive Garden restaurant Thursday afternoon. A manager at the restaurant referred questions to a company spokeswoman who did not return phone calls Thursday.

The workers are from Indonesia, Mexico and Guatemala, authorities said. The workers' names and their charges have not been released.

ICE spokesman Richard Rocha said the nine workers will go before an immigration judge who will consider deportation. He said their immigration status is not public record.

The daughter of one woman arrested said her mother had worked at the restaurant for eight years. Adriana Sanchez said her mother, Amalia de la Cruz, 56, was from Mexico."We want to talk to her and tell her not to sign anything," Sanchez said as she went to see her mother at the Mecklenburg County jail.