92 guards hired at immigration detention center without checks

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Source: Komo4news

SEATTLE (AP) - A privately run immigration lockup in Tacoma hired nearly 100 security guards without background checks, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn't catch the practice for two years, court documents show.

Sylvia Wong, an administrator in charge of hiring at the Northwest Detention Center, pleaded guilty this week in federal court in Tacoma to one count of making a false statement, for lying to investigators. In her plea agreement, she admitted that soon after starting work in November 2005, she began hiring guards without background checks "because of the pressure she felt to get security personnel hired at the NWDC as quickly as possible."

ICE auditors discovered early this year that 92 guards had been hired without the checks. The agency acknowledges that some of the guards have been fired following subsequent background checks, but won't say how many.
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On Thursday, ICE announced that 10,602 aliens had been deported from Alaska, Oregon and Washington in fiscal 2008 - a one-year record for the region and a jump of more than 35 percent from the previous year.

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[curse of greyface]

1. You can't get hired at most Stop and Go's without a criminal background check.

It amazes me that a security guard could get hired without one. nt

[GetTheRightVote]

2. The check is quick enough to do so why not do it, hmmm.

I am a big supporter of the group but do it right so there is no question when you deport law breakers like illegal aliens.

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