RockyMountainNews.com
Nearly 40 illegal workers were arrested Wednesday at the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, home to the country's largest strategic missile-defense unit.
The raid was one of the biggest in recent memory involving national security in the region.
The presence of unauthorized workers at the Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile unit, or ICBM, was an egregious security breach in which foreigners were able to penetrate a powerful U.S. military installation, officials said.
The Denver District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which oversees Wyoming, said it was trying to determine whether any of the workers had access to secure areas in the Air Force base, which is three miles west of Cheyenne.
Posted by Suzanne at February 27, 2003