Posted on 08/19/2005 3:07:00 PM PDT by 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.
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking, Amelia.
I agree with you 100%.
Please tell me how the base commander is responsible for the employee records of contracting firms. What the hell is he supposed to do? Personally check their status himself?
Now that the firms have been caught, the question is why. Did they knowingly hire these people, or were they fooled by forged documents? If they knowingly did it, they should be barred from government contracting FOREVER.
That topic drives me off my friggin' rocker. I don't care if you are young, old, disabled or not; not one of us who doesn't match the "description" should be undergoing the man-handling and pawing through our stuff. I, who have never been in trouble with the law, will have to stand there and publicly be wanded and patted down in two weeks - my stuff strewn about and picked through - all because I won't take my flip-flops off. My choice is foot fungus or public humiliation. Oh, yeah, and meanwhile we have wide open borders, and complicit globalist politicians eliminating our sovereignty and middle class. And, distracting us with a war that isn't doing any good since the enemy is already here with their nukes, diseases, and God only knows what else.
Nice of the big guns to show up to ram CAFTA down our throats in the middle of the night, but they can't seem to show up to secure our country.
To bad no one was listening to that part. I wonder what his position is these days? The prez must have never read that line.
It's not that "white people" think brown people or black people are special. It's that certain "white liberals" have made it so that "normal white people" are not allowed to treat everyone as equals.....even liberals can't be treated as equals....they believe in the philosophy of "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
All it takes is for ONE terrorist who looks like an illegal Mexican worker to kill thousands.
Remember what Khruscev said----we would destroy ourselves from within.
Well it's happening and it's not a pretty picture.
Real nice, ain't it?
Gee, I wonder how many work in the Pentagon.
If they were Islamo-fascists and set off a suitcase nuke in Camp Lejeune, d'ya think our politicians might finally think seriously about our borders and immigration laws??
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Wilmington is handling the investigation now, Carpenter said.SOP: The Criminal Aliens will be given court dates, released on their own recognisance and disappear, never to be seen again.
The fact that the employer(s) broke several federal laws in hiring the Criminals will be shoved under the rug.
LOCK THEM UP!!!!
Thanks for the post, SC.
Well ya?! That's a hard place to get into. My husband was stationed there just before he went to Nam in 70. We got married at Camp Geiger. Real hard to understand how anything could get past those MP's
"The arrests mark the second time this year that undocumented workers have been apprehended on a North Carolina military installation."
This is insane, bad bad bad. And what's with, "undocumented workers", this is the same bs as calling terrorists; rebels or insurgents. Were going to pc media ourselves into oblivion.
You're telling me?! Airport Security is illogical. We put our young g/son on the plane to come and go from Orlando to Detroit 3 times a yr. Because he's a minor they let one of us go back with him till the plane takes off. I ALWAYS get pulled aside and given the wand, and have to take shoes off, look in my purse, etc...And I'm not even getting ON the plane.
You must like the Catalina seaplanes! :0)
hugo and I(fidel), thank you very much Borax Queen, for being on our side about that evil CAFTA.
What's the deal - those two didn't like it?
Well, we mustn't profile, ya know....it means nothing at all that the planes/suicide murders are being committed by dark-skinned males, between the ages of 18 - 35 or so.
We must continue to search through grandmothers' purses, teenage girls' backpacks, blond toddlers' strollers, disabled men's wheelchairs.....so we don't hurt anyone's feelings...not those actions make any of us safe.
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