'Return To Sender!' Hundreds Of Furious Californian Protestors Block Road To Buses Carrying 140 Illegal Immigrant Women And Children - Forcing Them To Turn Back To Border Post • Three buses carrying 140 undocumented migrants turn around after protestors block road in Murrieta, California • Homeland Security planned to process them in the town, 60 miles from San Diego • They were flown in from Texas to ease the pressure on the state after tens of thousands of migrants flooded the border • Protestors waved American flags and were backed by the town's mayor • Mayor Alan Long has warned his citizens to expect busloads of people every 72 hours for the next several weeks • The Pro-Tem Mayor Harry Ramos warned the protests may occur every time a new busloads of immigrants are processed through Border Patrol By James Nye Published: 21:28 EST, 1 July 2014 |
A crowd of 300 angry protestors forced three buses carrying 140 undocumented migrant children and their parents to turn around in Murrieta, California, on Tuesday after they blocked the road. The dramatic confrontation between the flag waving protestors and the Homeland Security buses came one day after Mayor Alan Long urged residents to resist the federal government's plan to transfer the
Central American migrants to California to ease overcrowding of facilities along the Texas-Mexico border. Holding up banners that said 'Return to Sender' and suggesting the children should be sent to the White House instead, the irate protestors succeeded when the buses turned around and headed to a customs and border facility in San Diego - within sight of Mexico. Scroll down for video
+20 Fury: Protestors stop three buses outside Murrieta, California after they arrived to attempt to drop off undocumented migrants
+20 Demonstrators picket against the possible arrivals of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station
+20 Border Patrol agents watch as demonstrators picket against the possible arrivals of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station The illegal immigrants had been flown from Texas to California on Tuesday and arrived at 2pm to face many Murrieta residents furiously protesting the processing of the migrants to the Riverside County city US Customs and Border Protection facility. It was the first flight planned for California under the federal government's effort to ease the crunch in the Rio Grande Valley and deal with the flood of Central American children and families fleeing to the United States.
More... • Mexican teenager shot dead by U.S. agent while he played near border is protected by Constitution, appeals court rules • First picture of Guatemalan boy, 15, who died alone in Texas desert after 'getting lost' as his heartbroken mother reveals how she 'begged' him not to leave home Many of the immigrants were detained while escaping violence and extortion from gangs in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The government is also planning to fly migrants to Texas cities and another site in California, and has already taken some migrants to Arizona.
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+20 Unequivocal: The protestors did not hold back with their strident opinions outside of Murrieta
+20 Patriotic: Flag waving protestors prevented three buses from dropping off 140 illegal immigrants on Tuesday in Murrieta
+20 Murrieta resident, Bryan Escobedo, pickets against the possible arrival of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station in Murrieta
+20 Buses packed with undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station retreat up the road after being stopped in their tracks by demonstrators More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained after crossing the Texas-Mexico border since October in what President Barack Obama has called a humanitarian crisis. As the caravan neared its destination, a group of 150 protesters waiving American flags and shouting 'Go home - we don't want you here,' filled a street leading to the access road for the Border Patrol station, blocking the buses from reaching the facility. The demonstrators disregarded orders shouted by local police to disperse, but officers did not attempt to intervene physically to break up the demonstration. After about 25 minutes, the buses backed up, turned around and left. A board member of the union representing border patrol agents, Chris Harris, said the buses would likely be rerouted to one of six other Border Patrol stations in the San Diego sector. Lois Haley, a spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, declined to say where the buses were headed. 'For the security of everybody ... we're just not saying anything about any contingency plans now.' Many of the migrants are under the impression that they will receive leniency from US authorities. Another flight was expected to take 140 migrants to a facility in El Centro, California, on Wednesday, said Lombardo Amaya, president of the El Centro chapter of the Border Patrol union. The Border Patrol would not confirm that arrival date.
Mayor Alan Long has warned his citizens to expect busloads of people every 72 hours for the next several weeks, while Mayor Pro-Tem Harry Ramos has warned that Tuesday's standoff could be repeated in the coming days. ‘I believe that there will be protests every time there are buses on track,’ he told a local radio station. ‘I believe that there will be protests every time there are buses on track,’ he told a local radio station.
+20 Preparation: Murrieta's mayor Alan Long warned his citizens that the busloads of new arrival are to become a fixture over the next few weeks
+20 Law enforcement attempt to control demonstrators picketing both for and against the arrival of undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed yesterday
+20 Law enforcement officials riding buses packed with undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station watch as demonstrators block the buses
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Protesters turn back three buses carrying 140 immigrants as they attempt to enter the Murrieta U.S. Border Patrol station for processing yesterday The detainees are primarily children and were supposed to be placed under the supervision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials before being reunited with family through the United States. However, Long said that by sending the migrants to Murrieta the federal government is not enforcing immigration laws. 'Murrieta expects our government to enforce our laws, including the deportation of illegal immigrants caught crossing our borders, not disperse them into local communities,' said Long. Protester Roger Cotton, 49, drove up from San Diego to wave a flag outside of the Murrieta Border Patrol Station.
+20 Anger: The protestors managed to make the three buses perform a u-turn and return to the edge of the border
+20 Flashpoint: Counter-protestors hold pro-immigrant banners as protestors stand in the road blocking a bus carrying 140 immigrants on the way to be processed at the Murrieta border patrol station on Tuesday, July 1, 2014
+20 Law enforcement officials riding buses packed with undocumented migrants who were scheduled to be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station
+20 Protesters stand in the road blocking a bus carrying 140 immigrants on the way to be processed at the Murrieta border patrol station on Tuesday 'I wanted to say that I as an American citizen do not approve of this human disaster that the government has created,' Cotton said to the LA Times. 'Who’s going to pay for them?' he asked. 'What kind of criminality will happen?' 'The Democrats are making it easy for them to come here so they can produce more Democratic voters.' Police were on standby, but the protest passed without incident, bar the u-turn performed by the buses. Long urged residents in the suburb of 107,000 people some 60 miles north of San Diego to call their elected officials and voice opposition to the plan. 'We want to make sure everyone is doing what they say they're going to do,' Long told reporters. U.S. authorities announced last week that Central American migrants would be flown from the Rio Grande Valley to Texas cities and Southern California. The plan is intended to help relieve a crunch caused when thousands of people arrived at the border fleeing violence and extortion from gangs in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
+20 Counter-protestors hold pro-immigrant banners as protestors stand in the road blocking a bus carrying 140 immigrants on the way to be processed at the Murrieta border patrol station
+20 Singer Lipillo Rivera (C) who is picketing for the migrants joins other demonstrators as they shout against those picketing against the arrival of undocumented migrants w
+20 An unidentified protester, left, argues with American citizen Lupillo Rivera, brother of MexicanAmerican singer Jenni Rivera
+20 Protesters stand in the road blocking a bus carrying 140 immigrants on the way to be processed at the Murrieta border patrol station yesterday Anti-immigration protesters block undocumented migrants VIDEO BELOW http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2677429/Return-sender-Hundreds-furious-protestorsblock- road-buses-carrying-140-women-children-illegal-immigrants-forceborder.html#ixzz36JZYBqua
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