USA: Protesters await arrival of undocumented immigrants to southern California town

Record ID: 348934

  • Title: USA: Protesters await arrival of undocumented immigrants to southern California town
  • Date: 2nd July 2014
  • Summary: MURRIETA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JULY 1, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF MURRIETA CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION FACILITY VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH AMERICAN FLAGS WIDE SHOT OF PROTESTER, BRYAN ESCOBEDO (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, BRYAN ESCOBEDO SAYING: "I am disgusted at women and children being used as pawns in this bigger picture. You know, yeah we've got
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Usa
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA9NSVV1I2U8FSIW4GFPQMJRRO5
  • Story Text: Protesters gather outside the Customs and Border Protection facility in Murrieta, California on Tuesday morning (July1) where buses filled with undocumented men, women and children are scheduled to arrive for processing from the Texas-Mexico border.
    The crowd of protesters holding American flags and "Stop Illegal Immigration" signs are against the governmental decision to transport undocumented immigrants from Texas to California.

    "I am disgusted at women and children being used as pawns in this bigger picture. You know, yeah we've got to get a handle on immigration but you've got to stop giving them a reason to come over. You know, everybody knows you just got to throw up a wall and maintain that wall. Apparently Obama can't do that," says Murrieta local Bryan Escobedo.
    Approximately 140 undocumented immigrants from Central American countries will be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol station every 72 hours for the next several weeks. According to several protesters, the best solution is to send all undocumented immigrants back to their country without housing them in the U.S. for any period of time.

    "Look, the solution is, first, to send them back to the countries they are coming from and secondly, we have to go to the U.S. Congress and make them investigate what is going on in those countries so we can help change those countries, not with money but with laws," says Raymond Herrera, who has run his own organization of minutemen for the last ten years.

    "A criminal does not have, um, they can be 1 year old, 2 years old, 3 years old, 4 years old, they could be 20, they could be 40 but they are still criminals when they break the law," says Herrera.
    The crowd of protesters has grown throughout the day as they await the undocumented immigrants to the Murrieta facility.
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