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.
Thanks. I'm behind the curve when it comes to learning about Roberts.
No, they aren't, and it's becoming more obvious every day.
There is no country. There are just global trade markets.
This is at least the 3rd time in North Carolina.
This summer.
NC ping candidate.
Maybe that's a good thing...how obvious it's becoming concerning how cavalierly the elected officials take security....maybe the glaring obviousness of this sham will even be too obvious for the sheeple to deny....and they will finally open their eyes, use their brains, and scream for the idiots they elected to secure our country and borders.
But more likely, that won't occur until someone in their own family is murdered.
I don't know. CNN has been spending a lot of time on the porous border situation, and it's one thing the liberals in my family & I can discuss and agree on totally.
I think the politicians are the ones "out of the mainstream" on this one. Unfortunately, they appear to be paying more attention to the businesses who employ the illegals than to the rest of us.
I'm thinking they always have, for the most part, and we're just finally noticing that, as well; but, perhaps, that's also because it's becoming more obvious, too.
If so, this is all that will be done in the entire State of NC for quite a while. ICE has a total of 10 employees in NC, only one (1) of which is responsible for enforcement. They are completely overwhelmed by the estimated 300,000-350,000 illegals that have swarmed the State. No matter how hard they try, they can only manage to get a few thousand a year deported.
So, I guess the hundreds of illegal aliens flooding the streets in our county are even safer for a bit while ICE moseys around Camp Lejune for weeks fighting taxpayer funded immigration lawyers.
I like to think that once upon a time they were more noble, but common sense tells me that human nature probably hasn't changed much in the past 250 years....
Yes....there is a very old proverb which says, "there is nothing new under the sun." : )
In the Wilmington we know, this would be like the fox guarding the henhouse!
Ah, Dane surfaces once again to raise Straw Man arguments...looks like another job for....
"The Free Republic OBL Sock-Puppet Ping List!"
Gee Dane...how about staying on issue...like ILLEGALS getting CLEARANCE for JOBS ON MILITARY BASES!!! There's this story, and this one 17 arrested on federal immigration charges (Navy contractor)
I thought they were only doing the jobs "Americans didn't want to do...", Now they are doing the REAL GOOD PAYING jobs that
See sock-puppet...your day is done. America has awakened to the Quislings inside our country who are selling us out DAILY! Your "Big Tent" crap is DEADER than an ILLEGAL lost in the Arizona desert! Soon, you will find that as we build the separation wall both North and South, you and your ilk will be on the other side with your beloved Illegals...looking in whistfully!
The (R) Party either will get onboard the Freight Train that is ending ILLEGAL INFILTRATORS..or they will be left UNDER the wheels as it rolls over them....just where will you and your quisling ilk be then? hint... I know...
May I nominate the above for the "Drama Queen speech of the year"?
Last month, 49 people were found wandering around a United States Airforce base in North Carolina. All were in the country illegally.
No one was held accountable.
Great now Morris Dees will be suing the Marines, and probably some uber liberal judge will award them Camp LeJune as payment for their plight.
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