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http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/051118frackville.htm

News Release

November 18, 2005

SEARCH WARRANTS ON FIVE COMPANIES UNSEALED TODAY IN OPERATION AT WAL-MART CENTER THAT NETTED 125 ALIENS
Five Subcontractors Searched for Evidence of Money Laundering & Harboring Illegal Aliens

FRACKVILLE, PA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that federal search warrants and an affidavit were unsealed late this afternoon in connection with yesterday's arrest of 125 foreign nationals working illegally for five subcontracting companies on the construction site of a new Wal-Mart Distribution Center in Butler Township, Pennsylvania.

Yesterday morning, ICE agents and officials from the U.S. Department of Labor, the Social Security Administration, and the Pennsylvania State Police executed federal search warrants on trailers belonging to five subcontracting companies and/or entities performing work at the Wal-Mart construction site. These companies are Destin Drywall & Paint Inc, Frazier Drywall, Jay-Ton Concrete, CS Construction Services, and Republic Refrigeration.

The search warrants, issued by a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, sought evidence of several potential violations, including money laundering as well as harboring, transporting, and encouraging illegal aliens to reside in the United States.

During the execution of the search warrants, federal agents apprehended 125 individuals shortly after they arrived to work at the construction site. The individuals arrested worked for the five subcontracting companies searched. Agents found that some of the illegal workers had used invalid, altered or falsified documents to illegally obtain employment.

ICE agents continue to investigate the entirety of the circumstances surrounding the employment of these illegal aliens. The investigation continues.

Those arrested were from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. All of those arrested were placed into removal proceedings. They will have an opportunity to have their deportation cases heard before an impartial immigration judge.

"Employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, and those who utilize false documents to gain employment face significant criminal and administrative charges," said John Kelleghan, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge for ICE in Pennsylvania. "ICE's goal is to restore integrity to the immigration system and keep our workplaces safe by ensuring that those who work there are who they say they are, and are not vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous employers."

The operation yesterday is a part of ICE's comprehensive strategy for worksite enforcement aimed at promoting national security, protecting critical infrastructure, and ensuring fair labor standards.

As part of this strategy, ICE agents focus on investigations involving egregious criminal employer violations and widespread abuses where ICE enforcement actions can send a strong deterrent message to other employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens. These traditional worksite enforcement cases often involve additional violations such as alien smuggling, alien harboring, document fraud, money laundering, fraud, or some form of worker exploitation.

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UPDATE (32 minutes ago):

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Mall_Shooting.html

Sunday, November 20, 2005 · Last updated 2:23 p.m. PT
"6 hurt in Washington state mall shooting"

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TACOMA, Wash. -- At least six people were hurt after shots were fired inside a Tacoma shopping mall Sunday, and the mall was locked down as police searched for a shooter, authorities said.

It wasn't immediately clear if any of the injured had been shot.

A clerk said she heard three gunshots, and a shopper said he saw a man running through the mall with a gun and firing.

"An individual had just come running through a cross section and I heard some fire so I just told everybody to drop," Dick Waldo told KING-TV. "And then the individual started running toward the other end of the mall."

The mall was locked down, and the shooter was also still believed to be inside, Tacoma Fire Department Deputy Chief John Lendosky told CNN.

Authorities got a call about 12:15 p.m. that shots had been fired inside the mall, and State Patrol and police units from nearby agencies were clustered around an entrance at the south end of Tacoma Mall.

Six people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, Lendosky said. He couldn't confirm whether any of them had been shot."