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Nine Alleged Illegal Immigrants Arrested At Smith-Reynolds

The workers were apparently employed with a company doing maintenance work on US Navy planes.

Durham, NC -- Immigration officers swarmed a Winston-Salem company doing maintenance work on US Navy planes and arrested nine people they believed were in the United States illegally, a television station reported Tuesday.

WTVD reports agents from the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement made the arrests Tuesday at a hangar at Smith-Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem used by Aerospace Manufacturing Inc.

A spokeswoman for the immigration agency in Atlanta did not return calls to The Associated Press late Tuesday. A message left at the company's Winston-Salem office was not returned late Tuesday.

The station reported that the British citizens arrested were working on P3 Orion surveillance planes and that the federal agency was making a national effort to find illegal aliens doing work for the Pentagon.

The suspects were being held in the Forsyth County Jail, WTVD reported.