Posted on 07/08/2005 7:39:16 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
State Labor Department officials say federal agents who arrested about 50 immigrants at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base abused the trust that the department has tried to build with workers by inviting them to a safety meeting before they were cuffed and taken away.
Officials with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they rounded up the men just after they arrived for work Wednesday morning. They would not comment on exactly how the workers from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Ukraine were taken into custody in charges of using fake documents to get access to the base.
Allen McNeely, head of the state Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health division, said the workers were lured into the arrest by a flier announcing a mandatory Occupational Safety and Health Administration meeting.
McNeely said one of the contractors who employed the immigrants faxed him a copy of the flier, which tells all contract workers to attend an OSHA briefing at the base theater and promises free coffee and doughnuts.
McNeely said that neither his division nor the federal OSHA was involved in the arrests.
He said the ruse eroded trust between the Labor Department and the workers it is trying to keep safe.
In recent years, the Labor Department has made an effort to reach out to the state's thousands of immigrant workers, especially those in construction, because they are among the most likely to be killed or injured at work.
"We are dealing with a population of workers who need to know about safety," McNeely said. "Now they're going to identify us as entrappers."
They would not comment on exactly how the workers from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Ukraine were taken into custody in charges of using fake documents to get access to the base.
Unbeleivable that we abrogated their trust. Too bad.
"We are dealing with a population of workers who need to know about safety," McNeely said. "Now they're going to identify us as entrappers."
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The good news is that they were rounded up. So what's the problem? Did we hurt their criminal self esteem?
Then - complaining about it when they get caught red handed.
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In recent years, the Labor Department has made an effort to reach out to the state's thousands of immigrant workers, especially those in construction, because they are among the most likely to be killed or injured at work.
I have this to say to the Dept of Labor: B-O-O-H-O-O....how does it feel to know the world's tiniest violin plays a sad song for you clowns?
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US Labor Department aids and abets a contractor to the US Government (an Air Base!!) that KNOWINGLY has hired illegal immigrants.
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Since when have Republicans and conservatives favored the federal government trampling on the states?
Are we to give up our federalist form of government just to appease a few hard core unemployables who blame illegal workers for keeping them from being able to find a job?
With traitors like these people we don't need the Muslim's terrorist networks to do us in.
An Airforce base is federal property and the responciblity of te federal government, Jezzz some people are beyond help.
BRAC is ongoing. If I were in Alabama, I'd want these numbnuts to shut their pieholes.
BRAC is ongoing. If I were in Alabama, I'd want these numbnuts to shut their pieholes.
It's the same argument that police departments in sanctuary cities use. "Well, if they think we're going to round them up, they may not cooperate with us in investigating crimes in their communities."
I got news for ya, bozo (State DOL), turning a blind eye to crime begets more crime. If you don't believe that, open your eyes and look around you. Look at London, ya jerk.
Your fanatical defense of illegal immigration has apparently left you completely blind to the obvious: Air Force bases are Federal property.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
McNeely is more concerned about the possibility that illegal aliens might get a hangnail than he is about national security.
Unfortunatetly McNeelys abound these days.
We have a porous border that allows anyone, including terrorists, to come across. We have employers who allow ILLEGALS to get jobs with fake documents. Now, most of us know that some of these illegals may be terrorists and they may want to do damage to the places where they are working, but you think they are all baby sitters and farm workers and people who are only doing the jobs Americans won't do!
You say no terrorists here, no tuberculosis among them or aids either! No diseases that have been wiped out the US are carried in by ILLEGALS are they?
These people ARE taking our jobs, how else do they get them? If ILLEGALS work them then Americans can't work them can they? The main thing though is the safety of our country and the citizens and legal aliens who live here. We need to seal the borders until such time as terrorism is no longer a major threat to this country. Until that time people like me will keep yelling and screaming and demanding that the flow of Aliens into this country be controlled far better than they are now. We do NOT need open borders. Up the republic, God bless America and God Bless our British cousins.
so,give them a fricken meeting,throw a stale donut at them,toss a pipin hot cup of coffee down their necks and deport the basstirds...problem solved!
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