(NewsNation) — Two undocumented migrants reportedly were taken into custody this week after they used fake IDs to try to get into a secured work site — at a county jail in southwest Ohio.
“You can’t make this up,” Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones said on X. “This shows you the gall. They don’t care.”
The father-son migrant duo tried to use fake identification documents, including passports and driver’s licenses, to access a construction site at the jail on Wednesday, Jones said.
“Best fakes I ever seen, but they came to the wrong place,” he said. “They’re actually living now, less than 20 yards [from] where they were working.”
Jones said his stance against illegal immigration is well-known in the region. He said there’s even an “Illegal Aliens Here” sign with an arrow pointing to the jail, which includes office space for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
One of the migrants had previously been deported from the U.S. three times, Jones said.
Further information about the arrested migrants was not available from his office.