Undocumented Workers Arrested At Camp Lejeune

the Dispatch ^ | 8/20/2005

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- An anonymous tip triggered an investigation of undocumented workers at Camp Lejeune, resulting in 40 people being detained and a federal investigation, a base spokesman said.

Camp Lejeune officials detained 27 people at base gates during security checks Wednesday and another 12 at various construction sites Monday, 1st Lt. Clark Carpenter said Thursday.

Military investigators went to the site of the new primary school at 10:30 a.m. Monday and apprehended five undocumented workers, Carpenter said. Checks at other construction sites that same day found another seven.

That caused the base to step up inspections at a number of gates Wednesday and the additional arrests.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Wilmington is handling the investigation now, Carpenter said.

Details on where the workers are from, how they got on base and what will happen to them now were not immediately made available.

Sue Brown, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security office in Atlanta, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not commenting now because the investigation is ongoing. Carpenter declined to mention any contractors by name, saying only that investigators were "looking into the practices of several contractors right now." Work on base projects will continue, he added.

According to the Defense Department, Tyler, Texas-based C Construction Co., Inc., was awarded $23.6 million last year to perform construction and demolition of the mainside primary and mainside intermediate schools at Camp Lejeune, including the new Carla Johnson Primary School.

Company officials declined to comment on whether their workers were arrested.

The arrests mark the second time this year that undocumented workers have been apprehended on a North Carolina military installation. In July, about 50 people were arrested at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro.

[SC33]

This is ridiculous. How does this happen? This should not happen at all, let alone in the middle of wartime.

[Americanexpat]

This is the third or fourth incident of illegals being hired by contractors working on military installations. It is time for the government to take off the gloves and go after these law breaking contractors. Jail em and fine em right out of business.

[Mulch]

The Feds need to place a 5-year moratorium on immigration to the U.S. from anywhere.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

-ping-

[Borax Queen]

Lovely.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

They were also busted at an Army Ammo plant in Iowa.

[Mears]

Good Lord----and they still will check me(old lady) thoroughly befire I boatd a plane.

Homeland Security,my a** !

[hombre_sincero]

Report all suspicious ILLEGAL ALIEN activity to:

1-866-DHS-2ICE or 1-866-347-2423

.

[frankiep]

The Feds need to place a 5-year moratorium on immigration to the U.S. from anywhere.

Not likely. After all St. George II doesn't feel that this is a problem. Nothing to see here, keep moving.

[EagleUSA]

This is ridiculous. How does this happen? This should not happen at all, let alone in the middle of wartime.
-----
Hello Washington, DC.? Hello, are you there? Hello????

Sorry. I think our government has left.

[nicmarlo]

The arrests mark the second time this year that undocumented workers have been apprehended on a North Carolina military installation. In July, about 50 people were arrested at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro.

Meanwhile, my 16 year-old daughter gets to have her personal possessions man-handled at airport security.

U.S. "security" is a joke.....back doors open, illegals hired (and even given land, taken away from U.S. citizens)....it's nothing but buffoonery and a charade!

[SC33]

http://www.steinreport.com/archives/008366.html

I wasn't sure if I should repost this, but there is a very interesting piece of this article. Here is an exercpt:


"As a legal aide in the Reagan administration in 1983, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. declared that he would support creating a national identification card in order to combat 'the real threat to our social fabric posed by uncontrolled immigration,'

[jackbenimble]

let alone in the middle of wartime.

There is a military commander of some sort in charge of this base. He is obviously incompetent. He can't even secure his own base so he should not be playing a role in securing our country. His career should be toast!

Only one commander would need to be busted and this problem on military bases would be solved.

[Cobra64]

TSA checks me out because I'm a WASP wearing a suit.

[pennyfarmer]

This goes along with "If they were up your butt you would know it". Well they ARE up our butts.

I personally lock my door when I will not be looking so why are WE as a community and country not locking the door?

I am soooooo tired of inconsiderate "brown people" getting head of the line around here. I got into a fight with several "brown people" at a amusement park here locally because their kids were butting in line and I made it known to my own kids that "brown people get head of the line". Boy they don't like the secret getting out.

I am a bit olive skinned but I don't like to advertise. I have been hounded at schools about my heritage. I am proud to be American and nothing more. You can take my Indian heritage and shove it. I hate that white people think its something special. I WANT to be taken for who I am not what I am. To hell with special privileges and to hell with Illegals.

[frankiep]

U.S. "security" is a joke.....back doors open, illegals hired (and even given land, taken away from U.S. citizens)....it's nothing but buffoonery and a charade!

I remember a George Carlin line from one of his stand up routines about 10 years ago - "The 'security' we see in airports is there for only one reason: to make white people feel safe". How true.

[Amelia]

Sue Brown, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security office in Atlanta, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not commenting now because the investigation is ongoing.

And they are probably hoping people will forget about so they don't have to say much.

/cynicism

[nicmarlo]

Yes....that's all it is....except, I'd say, it's just making "stupid" white people feel safe. I don't feel safe, at all, and neither do those who know how to read and use their brains. : )

[kittymyrib]

C Construction Co. ought not only to lose its lucrative contract for hiring illegals, it should pay $100,000 for each infraction, and the president of the company should be arrested. Maybe we could get a little more serious about hiring illegals after that. And don't tell me that they are doing jobs that MANY Americans wouldn't love to do. It's just that C Construction Co. wasn't paying the workers what they were charging the government in the contract. Somebody in the CBO better look into these Pentagon contracts, pronto.