An immigration attorney in San Diego said she is seeing a trend in immigrants showing up at military bases for contract work, then being detained.

“It has been kind of a contentious situation, because they used to work there all the time, and now they’ve kind of changed their attitude,” Valerie Sigamani told NBC 7.

In the past two weeks, Sigamani said, she has had four cases come to her law office of men who were detained when they showed up for prescheduled work at Camp Pendleton and ended up being questioned about their legal status and taken into federal custody.

“They didn’t have any concerns because they had done it before,” Sigamani said. “They had been contracted by somebody on the base, and then they were called into work. So they weren’t seeking work or anything like that. They

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