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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 34 workers, identified as Mexican nationals, at Memphis International Airport working on the new Tennessee Air National Guard base. The various contractors who hired them will likely not be penalized because they'll say that they didn't "knowingly" hire the illegal immigrants. If the illegals showed even crudely fraudulent IDs to get hired, the employers are immune from prosecution.
In fiscal year 2007, ICE arrested 4,077 people on immigration charges nationwide. Considering there are approximately 14,300 ICE employees, that's one arrest for every 3 1/2 employees. Must be a tough job!
Federal officials said that they are focusing immigration enforcement efforts on projects where national security is a concern. In other words, they have simply decided to ignore what the Commercial Appeal of Memphis describes as "battalions of im migrants from Mexico and central America.... an unseen force at the bottom ...