Eleven people in Arizona were arrested and charged by Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Marshals Service for being in the country illegally and posession false idenfication.

The official charges, released by the DHS, were for possession of identification documents to defraud the United States, possession of identification documents produced without lawful authority and false attestation for employment eligibility verification, according to a release Thursday.

Between Sept. 10 and Sept. 22, DHS alleges each person who was charged possessed and used a counterfeit state identification card or driver’s license, as well as a counterfeit Social Security card, to obtain employment at a business in Arizona, according to the release.

The goverment also contends those people also falsely attested on Form I-9 to being U.S. citizens or to being otherwise authorized to work in the United States, when in fact none of them were United States citizens or authorized to work in the United States, according to the release.

The cases are part of Operation Take Back America, officials said in the release, that uses the department's  Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces and Project Safe Neighborhood..

Homeland Security Investigations' Phoenix office is conducting the investigation in these cases. The U.S. Marshals Service in the District of Arizona and the U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations in the Western District of Tennessee assisted in the arrest of individuals involved in these cases. The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, Phoenix, is handling the prosecution.