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June 9, 2010

Immigration Agents Target Oil Spill Cleanup Workers
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A Louisiana sheriff has admitted that his office requested federal
immigration officials to search for undocumented workers among those
cleaning up BP’s oil spill. In a statement to the magazine Color Lines,
St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens said he was concerned about
“illegal aliens” and “criminals” coming into the area “under the guise
of doing legitimate work.” Last week, the journalism project Feet in Two
Worlds revealed that immigration officials had visited two oil spill
command centers to check the documents of workers.