Posted on 11/29/2006 9:26:34 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ATLANTA - Federal authorities said Wednesday they arrested six illegal immigrants who had security badges that gave them access to the tarmac and other restricted areas at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the men, all Mexicans employed by T.C. Drywall Inc., as they reported to work at the airport Wednesday, agency spokesman Marc Raimondi said.
Immigration officials said the men had been hired recently to install drywall inside the airport's secure area. They will appear before an immigration judge and face deportation to Mexico.
Immigration officials do not believe the men posed a specific threat, but were concerned that undocumented immigrants had access to a secure area, said Kenneth Smith, special agent-in-charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Atlanta.
"ICE is aggressively pursing illegal aliens at the places where they work," Smith said. "Areas of critical infrastructure, such as airports, are especially important to national security."
Officials at the Atlanta airport, the world's busiest in terms of passengers, didn't immediately return messages seeking comment Wednesday. A message left on Alpharetta-based T.C. Drywall's voicemail also was not immediately returned.
Since March 2003, immigration agents have conducted operations at about 200 U.S. airports and audited nearly 6,000 businesses. The effort has identified more than 5,800 unauthorized airport workers and prompted the arrests of 1,100 illegal workers, Raimondi said.
Six down, 14 million to go....
The Democrats will soon put a stop to this outrage!
Meanwhile, probably over 6,000 made it across the border illegally today.....
Missing from this story:
"No penalties were assessed against employer T C Drywall, which immediately replaced the arrested Mexicans with six illegal Salvadorans."
"The arrested Mexicans were released to appear in court on July 15th, 2013. Four of the defendants asked for a delay because their US citizen naturalization ceremony was scheduled for that day. They, along with 14,235 others and 63,954 family members will be granted amnesty in 2007."
"TC Drywall has set up a fund to help pay the amnesty "fines" for the arrested illegals. The company said that since they pay the workers only $10 an hour with no benefits, they have built up a considerable cash reserve since they stopped hiring American journeyman workers whom they used to pay $24 an hour with benefits."
"Officials of LaRaza and LULAC have already set up food banks and soup kitchens for the replaced American workers to show their solidarity."
"The Democrats will soon put a stop to this outrage!"
Oh, you mean the Dims will do the job that Bush hasn't? Or have you fogotten they're both on the same team?
ping
Bttt!
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