Twenty-one men and women accused of illegally entering the country shuffled into U.S. Magistrate Court in Columbus on Friday in chains and shackles.

Family members wept as U.S. Marshals sat them in a row before U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth, who spent the afternoon advising each of their rights and accepting the guilty pleas of seven of them.

“They know they’re going to be deported,” said Nancy Needham, a bilingual missionary with Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. “I was OK until he did that.”

The illegal immigrants were caught early Wednesday during an ID check while trying to enter Fort Benning to do construction work on soldiers’ barracks. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office, the U.S. Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Labor Office of the Inspector General had conducted a joint investigation into illegal immigrants employed by contractors at Kelley Hill. The ID checks were at three entrances to Kelley Hill. [source]

There were raids and arrests at other military installations this past week. The illegals are being deported.

I just wonder how many aren’t caught.

h/t Jo’s Cafe