ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
29July2010 12:35pmPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:
Fort Huachuca, located in Arizona just 15 miles north of the US-Mexico border, is the largest military intelligence-training center in the United States. According to Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, several employees of a Phoenix-based cleaning service are illegal immigrants who have gained access to the high-security Army post.
Joel Votaw, owner of Valley View Building Services, told Fox News that he has worked to comply with Arizona and U.S. laws concerning the hiring of illegal, and, in a statement released today on his company website, promised to continue to be "transparent throughout the entire investigation"
Because of it's proximity to the border, Fort Huachuca took measures, in 2007, to change it's security measures in light of intel which indicated that Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were being smuggled into the country.
Nevertheless, there is concern about the US Army Post's proximity and security, as indicated by a May, 2010 article by Retired Army officer T.J. Woodward in The American Thinker, where he indicates that despite Fort Huachuca being "U.S. Army Intelligence Center, where the Army trains its intelligence soldiers -- analysts, interrogators, radio intercept specialists, and counterintelligence agents -- for operations overseas," the center's newspaper was asking "for volunteers to assist in cleaning up 'dumps' on posts where the illegals would drop their supplies used to cross the border and change clothing. They do this in order to blend in and not look like they just spent a day or two crossing the border in the dust and heat of southern Arizona."
