About 150 drug traffickers, registered sex offenders, violent felons and other convicts have been turned away in recent months at the gate while trying to enter Tucson’s Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The Arizona Daily Star said a dozen illegal immigrants with fake driver’s licenses also were intercepted under a new base policy that requires criminal background checks for those without military affiliation.

Some rejected for entry had been invited on base by military personnel or their families. Others were employed by contractors coming on base to work.

The new policy has been in effect since May.
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