In July 2006, immigration officials from the Department of Homeland Security ran a sting operation in which they posed as OSHA officials. When construction workers showed up at a “mandatory OSHA meeting” at the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, the immigration officers arrested 48 workers and processed them for deportation.

Is there anything unethical about using safety and health programs as a ruse to deport undocumented immigrant workers?