The owner of Tarrasco Steel, a company that supplied workers on the Biloxi Bay Bridge, was arrested and charged with hiring illegal immigrants on projects in three states. Some had improper welding certification.Yeah, let's go ahead and have these people, many of whom won't take the time to learn our language, and who come in cheap, be responsible for putting together structures that can either take people where they need to go safely, or can kill them. Me, I'd rather have secure borders, ICE background checks, and the deportation of all illegals, and safe bridges. Gosh, how awful.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Jose S. Gonzalez, 32, at his office in Greenville Thursday, according to a news release. Tarrasco Steel was hired as a subcontractor for rebar installation services to major bridge projects in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. The federal government considers those bridges as critical infrastructure, and they were part of routine inspections of facilities that if damaged could pose a threat to national security and public safety.
“There is a serious public safety concern when illegal aliens, who are not authorized to work in the country legally, and who do not possess valid welding certifications, are employed in the construction of bridges in our communities,” said Michael A. Holt, special agent in charge of the Customs Office of Investigations in New Orleans, in a news release.
BTW--Some of the bridges in question are the Huey P. Long brdige in N'Awlins, the Biloxi Bay Bridge, and I-40 through Memphis.