Federal immigration enforcement agents arrested over three dozen illegal aliens who they say submitted fraudulent documents to illegally gain employment at a roofing company in northern Washington state.
A total of 37 illegal aliens were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Mt. Baker Roofing warehouse in Bellingham, Washington, near the Canadian border.
ICE spokesman David Yost said that the federal immigration enforcement agents carried out the raid “based on an ongoing criminal investigation into the unlawful employment of aliens without legal work authorization in violation of federal law.”
Yost explained that the illegal aliens “fraudulently represented their immigration status and submitted fraudulent documents” or false information to gain employment.
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