Note the use of the word "foreigner" in the headline and the article.
That wouldn't have happened before, but we have a new owner at the UTSD.

Feds arrest dozens of foreigners in pedicab raids

Written b Kristina Davis
12:58 p.m., Oct. 11, 2012

SAN DIEGO — Nearly 40 foreigners living in San Diego on student visas were taken into custody Thursday morning on accusations of illegally working as pedicab drivers, federal immigration officials said.

The raids, which targeted apartments in the East Village, Pacific Beach and East County, are part of an ongoing investigation into the illegal use of foreigners in pedicab operations.

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made initial sweeps in August, arresting 24 Turkish nationals who were here on exchange visitor work visas. All of the arrests have been on administrative — not criminal — immigration violations.

The latest raids involved people primarily in their 20s from Eastern Europe, Russia, Brazil and Turkey, said ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack. They will be interviewed, then released on orders to leave the United States within 30 days, Mack said. Their visas will also be revoked by the State Department.

Federal law bars foreign visitors from working as pedicab drivers, even with the proper work visas. The law was enacted following a high-profile pedicab crash that left a woman with fatal injuries in downtown San Diego in 2009.

The investigation, led by ICE’s national security unit in San Diego, has exposed what agents suspect is a criminal ring that recruits college-age foreigners as cheap labor for downtown’s pedicab industry.

In many cases, agents discovered the foreigners had lied on their visa applications and supplied false Social Security numbers to the city to get permitted as drivers, Mack said.

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