Thread: Six illegals nabbed in Atlanta airport's secure area

ATLANTA Authorities say six illegal aliens hired to do work in the secure area of one of America's busiest airports are now under arrest.

Investigators say all had security badges giving them access to the tarmac and other normally restricted areas at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. All six are said to be Mexicans working for a private company that was hired to do some drywall work.

Federal immigration officials don't believe the men posed a specific threat. But the government is concerned that they managed to get clearances for the airport's secure area.

Neither the airport nor the company the men worked for immediately responded to messages for a comment.

In more than three and a-half years, immigration officials say they've found close to six-thousand unauthorized airport workers in the U-S.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 · Last updated 2:41 p.m. PT

6 immigration arrests at Atlanta airport

By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

ATLANTA -- Federal authorities said Wednesday they arrested six illegal immigrants who had security badges that gave them access to the tarmac and other restricted areas at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the men, all Mexicans employed by T.C. Drywall Inc., as they reported to work at the airport Wednesday, agency spokesman Marc Raimondi said.

Immigration officials said the men had been hired recently to install drywall inside the airport's secure area. They will appear before an immigration judge and face deportation to Mexico.

Immigration officials do not believe the men posed a specific threat, but were concerned that undocumented immigrants had access to a secure area, said Kenneth Smith, special agent-in-charge of the ICE Office of Investigations in Atlanta.

"ICE is aggressively pursing illegal aliens at the places where they work," Smith said. "Areas of critical infrastructure, such as airports, are especially important to national security."

Officials at the Atlanta airport, the world's busiest in terms of passengers, didn't immediately return messages seeking comment Wednesday. A message left on Alpharetta-based T.C. Drywall's voicemail also was not immediately returned.

Since March 2003, immigration agents have conducted operations at about 200 U.S. airports and audited nearly 6,000 businesses. The effort has identified more than 5,800 unauthorized airport workers and prompted the arrests of 1,100 illegal workers, Raimondi said.

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"ICE is aggressively pursing illegal aliens at the places where they work," Smith said. "Areas of critical infrastructure, such as airports, are especially important to national security."

In the meantime millions of illegals are handling our food supply in fields, meat packing plants, and restaurants without ever having been subject to health screenings.