Do you have a source for this statement?
I had heard that 2 were Mexican... nothing confirmed about their legal status.
Aren’t the miners unionized? If so, I hightly doubt they’d be illegal.
They may or may not be illegals. They are definitely Mexican nationals, as they’ve said so, the reporters and the mining company itself. Now, the question is, do they have H1-B visas or greencards, both which allow them to work legally in the U.S. If the mining company sponsored these guys on H1-B visa’s, then they can legally work. If not, they are then illegal aliens, and are on the payroll when they shouldn’t be. It will all come out in the wash.
google, “illegal utah miners,” and see what you find there.
Probably a half dozen Cornishmen, and maybe some Welsh guys in there ~ could be illegals.
• Little was known about the six miners; only one has been identified. The Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City said three of the men are Mexican citizens.
• Some of the miners’ families may be illegal immigrants. Barbara Stinson Lee, spokeswoman for the diocese of Salt Lake City, asked photographers not to take pictures of families attending a Mass Tuesday night. “It is a request from the families that there be no photographs. It’s not grief. It’s an immigration issue. They don’t need pictures on the front page of newspapers,” Lee said.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5663448,00.html