Posted on 03/12/2005 1:37:06 PM PST by sheana
WASHINGTON -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other agencies are investigating how at least one illegal immigrant used a false Social Security number to work inside the Crystal River nuclear power plant.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security detained three Mexican citizens at the site Thursday and charged them with entering the country illegally. At least one worked inside the nuclear complex under supervision, a spokesman for the power plant said.
All three men used false Social Security numbers to obtain work through a contractor for Progress Energy, which owns the site north of Tampa that includes one nuclear reactor and four coalfired power generators, according to the company and an immigration spokeswoman.
The incident raised concerns about soft spots in nuclear security that terrorists could exploit.
"Of all the places where an illegal alien should not be, this is like at the top of the list," said Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, a Republican who lives near the plant, which is in her congressional district.
Browne-Waite's 5th Congressional District includes the northern portion of Polk County.
(Excerpt) Read more at theledger.com ...
I wonder if I emailed this article to the WH, would it get sent straight to the "special file"?
And people still say they're here to pick lettuce, etc?
Huh.
Worse, now these idiotic liberals are defending their right to destroy us ... un-feakin-believable!
9-11 woke me up and made me angry ... these people it turned into whiney little wimps!
I did an employee benefit enrollment at a 100 employee mfg company and afterwards the HR lady called me and told me that she had done a social security audit of her employees and found that 10 were working there with false social security cards. 10%!!!!!! She had to fire the 10.
One employee had been there 10 years and was one of their most trusted employees. He said he had another ss #, but it was collecting worker's comp for him. He wanted to know if he should go "get it" so he could keep his job!
I have a friend that used to work for an assemblywoman here in California. She used to "get" all the emails. She told me she went down the list and....
delete
delete
delete
I said u didn't tabulated them, etc?
She said I didn't even read them.
Every email I send is backed up with a phone call now.
And that's to work at McDonalds.
Of course they are. Would you want to pick glowing lettuce from inside a centrifuge?
How many posts before the FR OBL shows up? I'm betting ten or less.
Good one. :)
Those politicians can get kind of testy, though, so you might end up getting an automated response directing you to click here. (Adult content, no kids allowed.)
We are not going to be reading a headline about you going on a rampage soon, are we?
FYI I have never been bothered by the ops on FreeRepublic.
Of course I try to keep my posts civil ;)
Why is it that concern is only acknowledged when some high profile security breach is detected?
I personally am as concerned about the manual labor jobs at food processing plants that are filled with illegals and which provide the potential of causing mass casualties through contamination.
As much as I am pi**ed off at the illegals, I am twice as pi**ed at the government officials that are willingly and knowingly allowing this to happen against the wishes of the people they serve.
In my opinion, if the time ever comes when the illegals are rounded up and deported, we should round up those government officials as well, strip them of their citizenship, declare them persona non grata and dump them across the border as well.
Words fail.
They're only doing jobs that lazy, illiterate Americans don't want. And cheaper too. Besides which, family values don't stop at the border. The president says so, and he ought to know.
I doubt that he was given unescorted access. He was probably being escorted on a work crew until his BI came back. In doing the BI I'll bet they discovered the false documents. That is generally how it works. I have been on many of sites in a escorted situation.
When it happens, President Clinton will argue that the only solution is a curtailment of 2nd Amendment rights.
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