Yesterday, in a nation built by immigrants, anti-immigrant protestors prevented the federal government from transferring three busloads of undocumented detainees - mostly children - to the holding facility in Murrieta, California. The anti-immigrant protestors were successful in preventing the Customs and Border Protection Agency from carrying out their lawful duties; even with other law enforcement agencies present.
Here’s what the mayor of Murrieta, Alan Long, had to say of the protest.
What people need to understand is that they [protesters] are showing their emotion and passion about a federal policy that isn’t working […] and if it started here in Murrieta, so be it. It won’t be just one mayor or councilmember or a group of small protesters, it’s going to take an entire region, maybe an entire state, to send a message to fix the problem so that this doesn't land on the community’s doorsteps.I wonder what part of the federal policy he thinks isn’t working. Could he be referring to the record amount of deportations by the current president? Or maybe he wants a more humanitarian approach to our current refugee crises? For some strange reason I don’t believe either one of those were his motivation when he was addressing a crowd of people with signs that read “Go Back to Mexico” and “Return to Sender” or (my personal favorite) “Protect Your Kids From Diseases.”
I leave it up you, the readers, to conclude what could possibly be the reason for Alan Long, and the rest of those protestors, of wanting to blockade busloads of children mostly from Central America.
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