WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- U.S. immigration officials report arresting around 50 people with fake identification trying to access the Fort Bragg, N.C., Army base, ABC News reports.
Few other details such as the nationalities of those arrested were released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, but Julie Myers, assistant secretary of homeland security for ICE, told the network there has been a major surge in attempted security breaches.
"This year, ICE has arrested a record number of employers who hire illegal aliens as well as thousands of illegal alien workers," Myers said.
Arrests of undocumented workers have also been made at the Naval Surface War Center in Indian Head, Md., a seaport in Oakland, Calif., the Crystal River Nuclear Power plant in Florida and the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the report said.
ICE said since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, federal agents have discovered more than 1,100 undocumented workers at 196 of the nation's airports.
