Posted on 09/01/2004 4:05:49 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
PHOENIX - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested workers employed by Aramark and Aire Filter Products.
Both companies are subcontractors at Boeing's Phoenix-area helicopter systems plant.
The plant makes aircraft for the U.S. military.
The feds say the targeted suspects are foreign nationals who were identified through the investigation because their immigration status makes it unlawful for them to work in the U.S.
As workers of the subcontractors, they performed janitorial and food service work.
Agents say the unauthorized contract workers used fraudulent Social Security numbers and counterfeit Alien Registration cards to obtain jobs at the plant.
Authorities fear the workers having access to sensitive areas in the plant could be vulnerable to exploitation by terrorists, smugglers, traffickers or other criminals.
I work in a defense plant so this story was interesting to me. We don't have many illegals like Arizona so this isn't a problem here, yet.
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