Times Argus
BRATTLEBORO, Vermont -- A Brattleboro man is facing federal charges for allegedly employing illegal aliens at his hotels and letting them live on site.
Gurdeep Nagra, 38, a Canadian citizen living in Brattleboro, pleaded innocent Tuesday in federal court in Burlington to an indictment charging him with employing and harboring illegal immigrants and on charges of having lied to authorities in obtaining his own authorization to reside in the United States.
He was ordered detained pending a bail hearing today.
Federal officials said at the same time they arrested Nagra, federal agents searched both the Hampton Inn and the Quality Inn in Brattleboro.
In addition to arresting Nagra, federal agents also took into custody 10 aliens illegally living and working in Vermont, federal prosecutors said in a statement released Tuesday.
Posted by tyne at October 25, 2007