RALEIGH, N.C. -- Federal authorities arrested 49 contract workers Wednesday at Seymour Johnson Air Force base on immigration violations, officials said.
The workers were laborers, including construction workers, and had no access to military files, said base spokesman Capt. Allen Herritage.
Authorities detained the workers early Wednesday "after becoming aware that contract workers had entered the base under false pretenses," Herritage said.
The workers were not hired by Seymour Johnson but rather by outside firms, he said.
The base is located in Goldsboro, about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh.
Neither Herritage nor Sue Brown, spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Atlanta, could identify the nationalities of those arrested.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Raleigh did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
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Sure they couldn't identify their nationality. I believe that.