Illegals Infiltrate Bases

Two Indonesian natives and a Senegalese man were arrested Wednesday and charged with immigration violations. That wouldn't be so unusual, except for the fact that the three worked as contract language instructors at the Army's John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N.C. That follows the arrest Tuesday of seven illegal aliens at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, who were working on a base housing project. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports that the problem of unauthorized aliens finding work as contractors at U.S. military facilities appears to be fairly widespread. Some other recent examples:

• On July 26, ICE agents arrested six illegal aliens working at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, Fla. The men were working for a Texas-based corporation, were working on a major runway-resurfacing project.
• On July 6, 48 illegal aliens who were working at the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. were arrested.
• On June 1, ICE agents arrested 26 illegal workers who had access to the Northrup Grumman Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
• On May 17, ICE agents arrested 9 unauthorized aliens performing contract work at a Winston-Salem, N.C., facility that refits the U.S. Navy’s P-3 Orion aircraft.
• On April 14, ICE agents arrested 18 illegal aliens working for a San Diego company that performed maintenance on U.S. Navy vessels in San Diego. An ICE audit of the contractor revealed that nearly half its employees were illegal workers.