Tancredo's an idiot for NOT checking this out.
And his answer saying that checking their paperwork was illegal was disingenuous at best.
Worker caught up in DIA sweep was freed inadvertently
By Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News
September 19, 2002Alfredo Hernandez, arrested Tuesday in the sweep of illegal workers at Denver International Airport, had planned to spend Wednesday hunting for a new job.
It didn't turn out that way.
He was free for less than 24 hours before being picked up by federal immigration agents.
Authorities said a mixup caused Hernandez, a cook for McDonald's at the airport, to be released. He was inadvertently turned loose by a magistrate after federal prosecutors did not ask that he be detained.
"At the time of his initial appearance (Tuesday), we were not aware that there was an INS detainer on him," said Jeffrey Dorschner, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.
The magistrate ordered Hernandez freed on a personal-recognizance bond and told him to return to federal court on Friday.
However, Nina Pruneda-Muniz, spokeswoman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said agents took Hernandez into custody Wednesday morning for allegedly violating immigration laws.
Hernandez was one of 110 workers at DIA named in a federal grand jury indictment for, among other offenses, using bogus Social Security numbers to obtain jobs.
Hernandez was accused of misusing a Social Security number.
After his release from custody Tuesday afternoon, he told reporters that he would attempt to search for a job on Wednesday because he needed to support his family.
Hernandez, 29, said he had been in the United States for about a year after selling "everything" in his native Vera Cruz, Mexico, so he could migrate north.
He had worked for McDonald's about five months.
Illegals are criminals from the git-go. They have no intention of obeying any U.S. laws. Letting illegals go on U.S. soil is treasonous. They and their gaggles should be immediately booted out immediately and their assets seized.