Posted on 04/23/2002 11:11:59 AM PDT by ppaul
Federal agents seize workers mainly on immigration charges
April 23 — Agents of the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs arrested airport workers Tuesday morning at Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport in Virginia, NBC News has learned. The federal agents have been arresting workers who are in the United States illegally or who are wanted on outstanding warrants.
AS OF about 9 a.m. ET, the agents had arrested about 35 workers at both airports, federal sources said. Some of the workers have access to secure areas of the airports, including airplanes and tarmacs.
The detainees are not suspected of terrorism. But they have been arrested as a result of the government’s no-tolerance policies implemented after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Many of the suspects have out-of-status visas, a violation of immigration rules.
The agents used a ruse to make the arrests. They told the targeted employees to head to various conference rooms on airport grounds to watch new training videos, the sources said. And once the suspects were seated, the agents moved in. Others not working today were being arrested at their homes. The arrests began at 6 a.m. and were scheduled to continue until 1 p.m. ET.
This is the latest in a series of such crackdowns at airports around the country but is the first in the Washington area.
Link to News Alert HERE.
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the FBI has KNOWN about these folks for months... in the interim there have been numerous background checks and phone taps and investigations of these people's KNOWN ASSOCIATES which needed to be catalogued and surveilled FIRST...
An illegal "screener" at the airport can always be BLACKMAILED... and you can bet they have been. That is the first thing a terrorist would look for... identify the vulnerabilities and the vulnerable workers in key positions. The FBI and other Alphabets have without a doubt been checking these VULNERABLE illegal employees out via their bank accounts, their phone records their cell phone transactions and credit card purchases as well as any other items of interest. This has been necessary to make sure that all the terrorists KNOWN associates, recruited vulnerable associates and blackmail targets can NOW also be screened, traced, backgrounded, and potentially arrested/prosecuted as well. It is ongoing and unravelling as we speak.
ONE big city at a time. OR several... It's a surgical operation... as this cancer apparently runs very deep... and we risk killing the patient if we remove too much, too fast... It would be a foolish error made in haste of the moment, if we were to deal with the symptom and entirely miss the metastises that are hidden and ready to go "active" in the event of a mass roundup.... a stitch in time saves nine... later.
Employees at US airports should be US citizens.
Glad to hear of arrests, though it's a bit unnerving to know that I just passed through one of those airports 10 days ago....
Who gives a damn about Mexico.
Not so well known is the fact that Argenbright is owned by Securicor.
Securicor has a branch at DUBAI, owned by an Arab!
Excuse me, but it is my allegation that terrorists working there stole passes, code, maps,ID's etc to help in their attacks!It is my thought that many of these arrested today are part of the terrorism deal!
I would tell them to **** ** ***** **** *** **** ***!!
No it is not, and I never implied that it was!!!
Works for me.
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