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40 Illegal Aliens Arrested At Palm Coast Construction Site

POSTED: 10:13 am EST November 16, 2006

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 40 undocumented workers at a condominium construction site in Palm Coast on Tuesday.

Agents said the illegal aliens, all men, were employed by various subcontracting companies working at the Ocean Towers construction site located on 3 Ocean Crest Drive.

Three of those arrested re-entered the country after being deported. Re-entry after deportation is a prosecutable felony that carries a possible 25-year prison sentence. Those three men are in U.S. Marshals custody awaiting prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The remaining 37 men will be held in various detention facilities throughout Florida pending deportation for violating U.S. immigration laws.

“Companies that use cheap, illegal alien labor as a business model should be on notice,” special agent Robert Weber said. “ICE is dramatically enhancing its enforcement efforts against illegal employment schemes."

Those arrested are from Honduras, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru.