Thread: FL: Construction to start on center for immigration and cust

Construction to start on center for immigration and customs

By Elizabeth M. Mack • DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER • Published: November 20. 2010 2:00AM

Ralph Bradley has a list of reasons why Tallahassee could use a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement building.
Right now, local ICE agents are split between two buildings. The investigation and Homeland Security side is on John Knox Road, said Bradley, the resident agent in charge of the Tallahassee office. The enforcement and removal operations are on Centerville Road. And even then, agents must drive to a detention center in Wakulla County to detain illegal immigrants before they are deported. With the new building everyone will be under the same roof.
"It's better for us all to be in the same place," Bradley said. "It means we'll be able to better coordinate investigations and share resources instead of duplicating resources. It'll connect our two missions."
In December there will be a ground-breaking ceremony for the new facility, said Brian Herbert, president of architectural firm Gallo Herbert Lebolo of Deerfield Beach.
The new 24,000-square-foot building, slated to be built at 1530 Commonwealth Blvd., will feature space for administrative use, as well as a temporary detention facility, Herbert said. A break room and indoor fitness area are also a part of the building's design plans.
Herbert said his firm is seeking silver certification in LEED, the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design program, by including natural light and materials that have high recycled content in the design. The building will be hurricane ready with a full building generator and the use of concrete, impact-resistant windows and doors in its construction.
"It's going to be a class 'A' space, an up-to-date facility with all the new bells and whistles," Bradley said.
The agency conducts Homeland Security investigations in such cases as drug smuggling, human trafficking, child pornography and sex tourism, document fraud, and money laundering, as well as investigating and locating undocumented aliens, Bradley explained.
With the new location ICE, agents will be able to host local law enforcement agencies at the facility to work on investigations, Bradley added.
The cost to build the facility is about $4 million and it is expected to be finished in about eight months after construction has started, Herbert said.

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I would bet that the majority of the construction workers, except the project manager and supervisor, will be illegal aliens.

Most of them will have no experience or skills and the moment the supervisor's head is turned they will be doing something wrong.

They finally had the Sheriff fingerprinting workers on the courthouse project here because bricklayers infiltrated the workers with one who spoke Spanish and tried to get hired and he then recorded the conversations and exposed the contractors. We have a law against using public funds to hire illegals, but they did it anyway. And, after they were caught, they still hired illegals who were detected by fingerprints.

There is no will in spite of such high unemployment among the construction trade.