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Army Garrison: Nonna Pizzeria and Sandra Chica

army garrison: Villavicencio's wife, Sandra Chica, said he went to deliver pizza to Fort Hamilton last week and was asked for identification by the guard who received him, according to Vancouver Courier. Villavicencio, who worked at Nonna Delia's pizzeria, an hour away by car in Queens, produced a city identification card, but the official told him he wanted to see a state driver's license, Chica said. An Ecuadorean restaurant worker making a delivery to an Army garrison in Brooklyn wound up being detained June 1 after a routine background check at the gate revealed there was a warrant for his arrest for immigration law violations, officials said.article continues below Trending Stories Charge laid in death of senior assaulted outside Costco New tool lets you see the value of your home Adriane Carr will not run for mayor of Vancouver Facebook moving offices to Burrard Street Now, Pablo Villavicencio is in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody pending removal from the country, ICE spokeswoman Rachael Yong Yow said. An Army spokeswoman told The New York Times that if visitors don't have a military identification card, they have to get a pass that requires a background check. This is unhuman, Chica said during a phone interview. The check on Villavicencio showed there was an active ICE warrant on file, at which point he was detained by military police, said Fort Hamilton spokeswoman Catherine Santo Pietro. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.