The Nation - News from July 27, 1986
Sixty-seven illegal aliens were scooped up in an Immigration and Naturalization Service sting operation in Midland, Tex. INS officials said they offered cash prizes in a bogus contest to people with longstanding deportation warrants against them. INS spokesman Mario Ortiz said the INS set up the sting in the Midland-Odessa area because of complaints from residents in the economically depressed oil-producing region. “Not only have they violated our laws, but almost all of them have been displacing American workers,” Ortiz said.
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