Two to three hundred tea baggers, waving Amercian flags and protest signs, blocked a public road in Murrieta, California. Thereby, they prevented three buses carrying immigrant children and their guardians from reaching a Border Patrol station in the town. Local police were on hand, but they reportedly could not contain the protesters. The buses turned around and went to a different Border Patrol station... one in Chula Vista. Chula Vista is in San Diego County; Murietta is in Riverside County.
The buses were carrying about 140 detainees from Texas.
The face-off came one day after Mayor Alan Long urged residents to protest the federal government’s decision to move the recent immigrants who arrived in the country illegally -- and have overwhelmed Texas border facilities -- to the Border Patrol station in his city.
“Murrieta expects our government to enforce our laws, including the deportation of illegal immigrants caught crossing our borders, not disperse them into our local communities,” Long said Monday at a news conference. The city had defeated two previous attempts to send migrants to the facility, he said
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The migrants had been flown to Southern California for processing to help alleviate crowding in Border Patrol facilities in Texas after thousands of Central American children and families fled violence in those nations.
Give me your tired and you poor... not!