Illegal Workers Arrested at WMD Testing Site

The Counterterrorism Blog has THIS story this morning:

On February 10, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that agents from its Salt Lake City, Utah field office had arrested nine suspected illegal aliens from Mexico working for a contractor on the Dugway Proving Ground located some 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.

Better late than never, I suppose.  More about ICE after the flip.

Dugway Proving Ground serves as a chemical and biological weapons testing facility for the Department of Defense. The arrests were part of ICE's Project Shield America, which seeks to identify illegal aliens working at locations and for employers involved in national security matters, to include those wherein unlawful acquisition or export of sensitive technology and weaponry may be a factor.

So let's review:

Over five years after "9/11 changed everything" it has finally occurred to our vaunted homeland security apparatus to check if maybe there are undocumented workers at our most sensitive military sites - sites involved in chemical weapons research.

I feel so much safer now.

ICE is the unbrella organization for border security under the Homeland Security Department.

About ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is one component that completes Border and Transportation Security (BTS), which is underneath the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The mission of the entire BTS is to secure the nation's air, land, and sea borders. As an organization that is part of BTS, ICE also strives to achieve a more specific mission.

ICE's Mission

To prevent acts of terrorism by targeting the people, money, and materials that support terrorist and criminal activities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the nation's border, economic, transportation and infrastructure security.

In the pursuit of that mission, they've been performing important border security missions like arresting people for possessing child pornography.  Now I'm no defender of child pornography, but maybe that's just a little afield of their stated purpose?

So it's good to see a little focus developing, perhaps.  God knows with this bunch, we have to take what little we can get.