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34 illegal workers arrested at construction site
By Jane Roberts

Originally published 02:51 p.m., March 25, 2008
Updated 02:51 p.m., March 25, 2008

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 34 illegal workers early today at the construction site for the Tennessee Air National Guard. The men were employed by several contractors and subcontractors building the $225 million base at the corner of Swinnea and Shelby Drive.

The arrests were made on the airport property. The raid was planned after a tip from the U.S. Air Force office of special investigations that illegal workers were reportedly working there.

The arrested were being processed this afternoon the ICE detention and removal office in Memphis. They will be placed into deportation proceedings for violating U.S. immigration laws. According to ICE, each of the arrested people said they were from Mexico and were in the United States illegally.

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Don't stop here. Next step, bringing charges against these contractors and subcontractors.

Tn. passed a law, that if contractors were working on any state projects, they had to prove their workforce was legal, or they could have their business license pulled. If these illegals were working for several contractors working on a project for the US Airforce, the employers should have been taken to jail. I'm going to call and see if the law they just passed is written in invisible ink, if not why do they not enforce it?