Saturday, November 05, 2005

Doing the jobs Americans won't do?

WRAL.com - News - Immigration Agents Arrest 21 Workers At Camp Lejeune:

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Wednesday 21 illegal immigrants working for construction companies at Camp Lejeune, the agency said.

"The workers were from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico and most had counterfeit immigration documents.

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"Last month, three men believed to be illegal immigrants landed jobs at Fort Bragg's Special Warfare School teaching foreign languages to elite forces. In August, a tip led federal agents to arrest 39 suspected illegal immigrants at Camp Lejeune. And in July, nearly 50 men who worked on construction projects were arrested at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base."

If it wasn't the weekend, I'd make some calls and find out if the jobs the illegal construction workers held were covered by the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts which set higher wages than the standard US minimum wage for many federally-funded construction contracts. At any rate, these guys weren't cleaning swimming pools, raking leaves and cutting grass, or doing stoop labor picking vegetables.

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