43 Illegals Arrested in Arkansas

Keep Arkansas Legal reported that on Wednesday, Federal agents arrested 24 suspected illegal immigrants working on a construction project near the Little Rock National Airport, but not inside the airport's secured areas, officials said Wednesday. Agents raided a construction project at the site of Supermarine, a company that provides fuel and supplies to corporate and private aircraft. A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at New Orleans, said the raid came as local police served an arrest warrant on a U.S. citizen facing a drunken-driving charge. ICE got a tip that illegal immigrants worked for that contractor, and the agency decided to carry out a raid at the same time as local officers went to the site.

The raid came as part of ICE's effort to target illegal immigrants with access to critical areas like airports, military installations and nuclear power plants. However, the construction site is outside of the secured areas where the runways and terminal sit, said airport spokeswoman T.J. Williams. Of those arrested, 23 were Mexican nationals and one man from Peru. Wednesday's raid comes two weeks after an immigration raid on a north Arkansas poultry plant. Agents arrested 21 suspected illegal immigrants at Pilgrim's Pride plant in Batesville, Arkansas as part of a nationwide sweep against workers using illegally obtained Social Security numbers and driver's licenses.

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