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SEATTLE — The Department of Homeland Security freed 27 illegal immigrants arrested during a workplace raid in February and offered them legal work permits, signaling a major departure from the immigration enforcement policy of the Bush administration.

The Feb. 24 raid of an auto parts plant in Bellingham, Wash., netted 28 illegal immigrants. While one was deported, the remaining workers were released from custody and given employment authorization documents, or EADs,

Source: MARY FLOOD HOUSTON CHRONICLE

A Seabrook man accused of having child pornography on a U.S. Marine base in Iraq, where he was working a civilian job, appeared in Houston court on Wednesday and will be held in custody until his May trial.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy found that Michael Anthony Grabar, 44, is a danger to the community and a flight risk.

Grabar left a computer flash drive with child pornography in a laundry facility at Camp Fallujah in Iraq in May 2008, according to a news release from acting U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson. Grabar was in Iraq serving as a KBR forklift operator. KBR security found the illegal images and other documents belonging to Grabar on the flash drive, the release stated.

According to the testimony presented in Houston court by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Stabe, more than 500 images and 79 videos containing pornography were found .

After the discovery, Grabar was fired and sent home. Grabar faces up to 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and life on supervised release.