brit am wrote:
From CNN's Lou Dobbs, one of the only people in the media confronting
the
problem of illegals on a nightly basis. Illegals working on US
Military
installations

15 April 2005



ANNOUNCER: This is LOU DOBBS, for news, debate and opinion, tonight.

DOBBS: Good evening. Stock prices today plunged on Wall Street. The
Dow
Jones industrials fell almost 200 points. That the worst single day
decline
in nearly two years, in fact.

The Dow over the past three days has fallen more than 400 points. A
new
report today showed consumer confidence at the lowest level in a year
and a
half. All of the major markets suffered huge losses on the week.

Turning now to our nation's immigration crisis. Tonight, the Homeland

Security Department says dozens of illegal aliens had access to one
of our
nation's most sensitive and secure military facilities. The
department says
86 illegal aliens worked for a California contractor, a contractor
that
repairs U.S. Navy ships at the naval station in San Diego.

Twenty of those illegal aliens have been arrested. But the government
says
it has no idea where the other 66 illegal aliens are.

Bill Tucker reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Eighty-six illegal
aliens found
work here, painting ships at the naval station in San Diego. That is
more
than half of the payroll at Naval Coating, the contractor which hired
the
illegals.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were able to only find and
arrest
20, two of whom have been deported before. One after being convicted
of drug
smuggling. The arrest part of a crackdown by ICE agents in San Diego,
home
to three military bases.

MICHAEL UNZUETA, ICE SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE: We're going into these
employers and these businesses and checking their employee records.
In San
Diego, we've reviewed somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 or more
companies. We've looked at about 13,000 employment records, and of
that,
we've made 168 arrests.

TUCKER: Naval Coating had no comment. But ICE showed off the false
documents
the employees use to get hired, including false Social Security
cards.

This latest group of arrests follows the arrest of illegal aliens
working on
a nuclear reactor in Florida. Twenty-seven illegals working at
Piedmont
Triad International Airport, 14 illegals working at Logan
International
Airport, and three illegals with state-issued ID cards work for a
company
servicing vendor machines in the state prison at Chino, California.

JAMES CARAFANO, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: The most dangerous terrorist
attacks
are what's called insider attacks. It's people who -- you know, most
security systems are designed to keep people out who have bad intent
from
getting in. But if you have an insider, somebody who has a badge who
get in,
they can do terrible things.

TUCKER: It may seem obvious, even alarmingly simple. But more
alarming is
that the law only requires an employer find two pieces of ID
acceptable,
such as a driver's license and a Social Security number. There is no
legal
requirement to check Social Security numbers.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TUCKER: Equally disturbing are the penalties involved. Unless a
pattern of
willful hiring of illegals can be proved, there are no criminal
penalties. A
first offense is a civil penalty, and you can be fined, Lou, not less
than
$250 and not more than $2,000.

DOBBS: Well, aside from the idiocy concerning all those penalties,
the fact
that a U.S. naval shipyard is sitting there with security so lax that
this
could occur, I mean, that's abominable.

TUCKER: Well, the security requirements actually are on the
contractor. The
contractor's supposed to do the background checks, and when they are
let in,
they go through two checkpoints. But the background checks are the
requirement of the contractor.

DOBBS: That's a U.S. naval base -- forgive me.

TUCKER: Yes, it is.

DOBBS: It's on the U.S. Navy to make certain that doesn't occur.
Thank you,
Bill Tucker. Incredible.

Well, as we is reported here extensively, the millions of illegal
aliens in
this country are enjoying many benefits designed for U.S. citizens,
including, of course, education. Tonight, Florida is the latest state
to
consider legislation that would allow many illegal aliens to attend
state
colleges for largely discounted in-state tuition rates. Critics say
the bill
will only harm students who are in fact American citizens.

Meantime, Bush ducks and crawls along with Congress.

Tom

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