Undocumented Workers at Cheniere LNG Site in Louisiana Arrested
- Those arrested were working for contractor Bechtel: company
- News comes just as White House touts LNG as U.S. job creator
The Amazon Brilliance oil tanker, right, sails past a storage tank, left, at the Cheniere Energy Inc. liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Sabine Pass, Louisiana, on Jan. 14, 2016.
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Fifteen undocumented immigrants contracted to work at America’s first shale gas-exporting terminal run by Cheniere Energy Inc. have been arrested.
The Justice Department said Tuesday that the 15 people arrested falsified documents to get jobs over the past three years at the liquefied natural gas complex that Cheniere’s expanding. They were working for Bechtel Corp., the closely held contractor said in a statement. Most of the undocumented immigrants are from Mexico, with two from Guatemala and one from Honduras, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Texas said.