ICE Raid In Richmond Nets 50 Illegal Aliens
By Greg L | 7 May 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics, Crime | 25 Comments
WRVA is reporting that a workplace enforcement raid by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Richmond this morning netted fifty illegal aliens working on — get this — the construction of a Federal Courthouse. Your taxpayer dollars are hard at work paying wages to persons who are not legally allowed to work in the United States because Governor Kaine and Dick Saslaw refuse to consider measures that would effectively reform the public procurement process in Virginia.
UPDATE: WRVA has more on this:
Many of the workers ran when they heard what was going on - and tried to hide in the building. Officers were still going through the buildling hours later. One of the construction workers at the scene says about half of the workers there were probably illegals.
Sounds to me like the “we didn’t know they were illegals” defense isn’t going to work here. We may just have another opportunity to put an unscrupulous business owner in jail here…
UPDATE 2: The Richmond Times-Dispatch has more information here.
The builder for the project is Tompkins Builders Inc., based in Washington, which does private and public sector construction. Other projects being handled by Tompkins include the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center just outside Washington and the National World War II Memorial. The developer is the U.S. General Services Administration.
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Uh…it’s a federal courthouse, why the heck does Kaine and Saslaw have to do with it?
Good Job ICE, keep em coming. And, Kaine and Saslaw have been major supporters of illegal immigration and oppose the measures that would have stopped them from ever gaining employment such as this in the first place. The fact that it was a federal courthouse matters not, Greg was just illustrating scope of illegals in the workplace.
Once again, GO ICE, GET EM ALL!
Had Saslaw and Kaine not worked overtime to torpedo adoption of the E-Verify system in Virginia as has been done in Oklahoma and Arizona, the local contractor who was performing this work would not have been able to employ illegal aliens so easily.
Timithy,
Because Timmy Kaine and DICK support illegals, so illegals feel welcomed in Virginia.
Kaine and Saslaw are relevant to the story because all contractors working in VA must have a Virginia contrator’s license–even when working on federal projects. Kaine and Saslaw have done NOTHING to make it harder to for illegal aliens to find work in Virginia.
Don’t forget Puller! Puller + Principi = illegals win!
This is a step in the right direction–although I prefer that the Border Patrol do more to prevent illegal aliens from entering.
“Feds arrest illegal immigrants who are trying to leave USA”
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/feds-arrest-ill.html
In a nutshell, the feds are checking immigration status of those leaving the country at the San Diego-Tijuana border crossing. Those who have criminal records or numerous immigration violations are arrested (this poorly written blog doesn’t mention those who have warrants). Other illegals are processed and returned to Mexico within a few hours.
This action is a strike against illegal criminals who try to flee the country to avoid arrest and capture. I hope the ones who are returned to Mexico are given deportation orders, so that they will be processed criminally if they return.
Virginia laws affecting public procurement would have no affect on contracts for federal projects.
My son just left VCU for the summer and told me how
few illegals were in Richmond compared to here. LOL!
Let’s hope that more illegal aliens become scared and leave on their own. They are not wanted here. In a way, I am happy about the increase in gas prices. Maybe it will keep more illegal aliens from driving and killing our citizens and legal residents. I heard they are sending a lot less money back to Mexico and Latino countries, so this is also a good sign.
Kaine should be hit on this as hard as possible.
Rick:
You want to hit Kaine on this and other issues: This is from his schedule:
Tuesday
May 13, 2008 Transportation Town Hall. Governor Kaine will discuss the upcoming transportation special session. No sign-in is required to attend or ask questions. All town hall meetings are open to the public and media.
NOTE: An additional town hall location for Northern Virginia (Loudoun) will be announced next week. 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Dr. A.J. Ferlazzo Building
15941 Donald Curtis Drive
Woodbridge, Va
http://www.ktvu.com/news/16182667/detail.html
Nice kicker at the end. Kalifornia politics at it’s best!
Starryflights: Hope is an excuse for inaction.
HEAD ‘EM UP AND MOVE ‘EM OUT!
“Virginia laws affecting public procurement would have no affect on contracts for federal projects.”
No, but Federal laws DO apply…which is probably why ICE raided the site.
Wow. That contracter is certainly bold to hire that many illegals to work on a FEDERAL courthouse. Be interesting to see what they do to him/her. Hopefully jail time and big fat fines.
From: http://www.turnerconstruction.com/Tompkins/content.asp?d=3933:
Tompkins Builders, Inc. has recently been awarded the U.S. Richmond Courthouse project by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Philadelphia office. Tompkins Builders is the general contractor for the project, expected to start in February 2005 and be built by the year 2008.
This $74.3 million project involves the construction of a 337,000 sq. ft. courthouse includes 64 inside parking spaces. The building’s design includes a steel structure with a progressive collapse feature. The curtainwall will consists of blast resistant glass and glazing with side plate connections. The structure will include stone and precast concrete with ornamental steel rails. The raised accessed floors will be made of Portland cement terrazzo.
The proposed Courthouse will provide housing for the U.S. District Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. Probation Office, Pretrial Services Office, Federal Public Defender, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Trustees Office and other tenants. [end of quote]
The completion date on this project was this month. I suspect the Government contracting officer got fed up with delays and dropped the dime on Tompkins. I hate to see criminal laws being used for administrative purposes, especially when the contracting officer probably was aware of the makeup of the workforce from the inception of the project.
This link has both audio and pictures:
http://tinyurl.com/6l5s4g
Feds Stage Raid For Illegals Downtown
Immigration Agents Arrest About 50 Contruction Workers At The New Federal Courthouse
By 1140wrva.com
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Richmond, VA (1140wrva.com) The Feds took away dozens of suspected illegal immigrants working at the new Federal Courthouse construction site in downtown - according to witnesses. A construction worker says State Police surrounded the bulding around 8am and then I.C.E. (Immigration Customs Enforcement) and FBI officers moved in and rounded up about 50 workers.
Many of the workers ran when they heard what was going on - and tried to hide in the building. Officers were still going through the buildling hours later. One of the construction workers at the scene says about half of the workers there were probably illegals.
One of the members of Tompkins Board of Directors is none other than a Stephen Fuller, Ph.D. My dollar to your hole in a donut says it’s the same Stephen Fuller who gives advise to our BOCS and was lamenting last week the dire straits the County would find itself for unassing its Illegal Invaders. Ole Fuller has a personal interest in keeping illegals around. Sumbitch!
Dear Governor Kaine
This is a friendly reminder that we, the constituents of Va, are the ones that voted you in to protect our interests. Them, the illegals, are not the ones that voted you in so you should not make your priority protecting them. Virginians want a state that does not want sanctuary cities, does not spend additional money on services for illegals and does not want a new language, which is beginning to be the norm in many localities. I think that the best thing for us right now would be a NEW governor along with you not getting voted into ANY other political positions
Why to go ICE! If the border was closed you would only have another 30 million or so to catch! But probably another 10 thousand came across while you were catching the 51.
It is just a pure French and sickening viewpoing and with the hand of a ”powerfull friend” Jiiiii ji jiiiii!
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ABUSE OF POWER AND CROOKS IN SITE TO HELP is the latest epidemy in our limping society and it is just fun to see the last efforts of the racists put to work.
The gas prices are the way of modern fancy crooks to kill the buffalo for the poor and hungry! (remember HISTORY?)
Adios guisaches!
Afraid that you might be next, Palito Kon KK?
Advocator: “Ole Fuller has a personal interest in keeping illegals around.”
Other than untalented and unskilled do-gooders who have to “help” others (who don’t give a crap about them) and make themselves feel good, why else would anyone want illegals around?
Cheap, slave labor. Immigration crackdowns don’t hurt “our” economy, Prof, but they hurt yours, don’t they?