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Old 02-28-2003, 06:11 AM   #1
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Unhappy illegal immigrants were arrested at F.E. Warren Air Force Base,

At first I blew this artical off...ok so they caught 37 Illegal immigrants...so what....then I read the part were
"The base is headquarters of the 20th Air Force, which is in charge of 150 Minuteman III missiles at Minot Air Force Base in Minot, N.D., and 200 Minuteman III missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont., as well as the Warren missiles."

So we have 37 illegal immigrants...some with fake documents working on the base with a buch of nuclear missles.....no that is a problem.


By MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press Writer
February 27, 2003, 3:04 PM EST

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Thirty-seven people accused of being illegal immigrants were arrested at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, headquarters of the nation's largest arsenal of intercontinental nuclear missiles.

Forty-four employees of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers subcontractor were originally arrested Wednesday. Seven later provided documents showing they were in the country legally, officials said.

The other 37 "were taken into custody and they remain in our custody awaiting further investigation," INS spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said Thursday.

The illegal immigrants were working at two areas on base. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials were trying to determine whether the aliens had access to secure areas.

However, authorities do not believe any were linked to terrorists.

Pruneda said the arrests were made in conjunction with military police and possibly other local law enforcement. She was unsure what type of work the people taken into custody were doing.

F.E. Warren, on the west side of Cheyenne, is home to the Air Force Space Command's 90th Space Wing, which oversees 150 Minuteman III and 50 Peacekeeper missiles in silos in western Nebraska, southeast Wyoming and northeast Colorado. The Peacekeepers are being deactivated.

The base is also headquarters of the 20th Air Force, which is in charge of 150 Minuteman III missiles at Minot Air Force Base in Minot, N.D., and 200 Minuteman III missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont., as well as the Warren missiles.

F.E. Warren spokesman Tech Sgt. Kenneth Smith told the Rocky Mountain News of Denver that some of the workers had bogus papers.

"I could say that a few documents were falsified," he said.

He was unsure of the workers' nationalities.

Smith said the Army Corps of Engineers contracted the work to a construction firm, which then provided a subcontractor. The subcontractor was questioned by authorities and released.

Smith said the contracting office at Warren plans to look into how so many undocumented workers secured jobs at the base.
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Old 02-28-2003, 09:02 AM   #2
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About 50 miles from me,boy do I feel secure. I had to do some work at Warren AFB once,and they checked me out,looked at the truck,had to see what I had.
Now we are supposed to be on a terror alert,and they can't even secure a base. Amazing!
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