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BURLINGTON, IOWA (AP) -- Twenty former workers of a West Burlington company have pleaded guilty to immigration-related charges.
The workers at Iowa Pre-Stressed Concrete were arrested last April after an investigation by immigration officials into false social security cards and resident alien cards.
They were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Davenport on a variety of charges, including fraud and misuse of documents.
The U.S. attorney's office says 16 workers were sentenced to two years in prison and will be deported after they're released. The other four received credit for time served and are being deported.
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