Illegal Aliens New Mexico

Immigration and Naturalization Service agents raided a top-secret installation at Kirtland Air Force Base and arrested 16 undocumented Mexican workers, officials said. The workers, employed by a roofing contract firm, were repairing a roof at the Sandia National Laboratory, a secret weapons and nuclear research facility. Doug Brown, the INS agent in charge of the Albuquerque office, said the raid was ordered after Sandia employees reported suspicions about some of the workers.

U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno on Wednesday named New Mexico's chief federal prosecutor as "border czar" to succeed former U.S. Atty. Alan Bersin, who used the largely symbolic post in San Diego as an attention-getter for border issues including a major crackdown on illegal immigration. The appointment of U.S. Atty. John J. Kelly as Reno's special representative for the Southwest border took some California elected officials by surprise.

Sixty-seven illegal immigrants employed as maids have been arrested in three days of raids on hotels and motels here, officials said. The maids, all of them Mexican citizens, were arrested between Tuesday and Thursday at about 20 hotels and motels by Immigration and Naturalization Service agents as part of a crackdown on undocumented workers.

Immigration and Naturalization Service agents raided a top-secret installation at Kirtland Air Force Base and arrested 16 undocumented Mexican workers, officials said. The workers, employed by a roofing contract firm, were repairing a roof at the Sandia National Laboratory, a secret weapons and nuclear research facility. Doug Brown, the INS agent in charge of the Albuquerque office, said the raid was ordered after Sandia employees reported suspicions about some of the workers.

U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno on Wednesday named New Mexico's chief federal prosecutor as "border czar" to succeed former U.S. Atty. Alan Bersin, who used the largely symbolic post in San Diego as an attention-getter for border issues including a major crackdown on illegal immigration. The appointment of U.S. Atty. John J. Kelly as Reno's special representative for the Southwest border took some California elected officials by surprise.

Sixty-seven illegal immigrants employed as maids have been arrested in three days of raids on hotels and motels here, officials said. The maids, all of them Mexican citizens, were arrested between Tuesday and Thursday at about 20 hotels and motels by Immigration and Naturalization Service agents as part of a crackdown on undocumented workers.